Michael Lewis (born 1960, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American contemporary non-fiction author. His bestselling books include Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game and The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location in the State of Louisiana and the United States Coordinates: , Country United States State Louisiana Parish Orleans Founded 1718 Government  - Mayor Ray Nagin (D) Area  - City  350. ... Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. ... Liars poker is a bar game that combines statistical reasoning with bluffing, and is played with the eight-digit serial number on a dollar bill. ... The New New Thing : A Silicon Valley Story is a book by Michael M. Lewis released in 1999 about the founder of several Silicon Valley companies, Jim Clark, and the entrepreneurial culture that dominated the area during the height of the Internet boom. ... Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael M. Lewis in 2003 about the general manager of the Major League Baseball team Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, and his teams approach to running the organization. ...

After graduating from the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, he received an art history degree from Princeton University and a masters degree in economics from the London School of Economics. Isidore Newman School a private, nondenominational, co-educational college preparatory school located on an 11-acre campus in the Uptown section of New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Nickname: Location in the State of Louisiana and the United States Coordinates: , Country United States State Louisiana Parish Orleans Founded 1718 Government  - Mayor Ray Nagin (D) Area  - City  350. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a specialist constituent college of the University of London. ...

He went on to become a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in London, an experience he described in his first book, Liar's Poker. The book has since become a must read for anyone aspiring to become a financier. While at Salomon Brothers, he continued to work nights and weekends as a journalist, an effort he continues to this day with pieces for periodicals like The New York Times Magazine. This article deals with Salomon Brothers. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Financier (IPA: /ˌfi nãn ˈsjei/) is an elegant term for a person who handles large sums of money, usually involving money lending, financing projects, large-scale investing, or large-scale money management. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

In the The New New Thing (1999) he investigated the then-booming Silicon Valley technological scene and discussed obsession with innovation. He considered this phenomenon both from the perspective of the computer engineers actually making the new products and the entrepreneurs who invested in them. The New New Thing : A Silicon Valley Story is a book by Michael M. Lewis released in 1999 about the founder of several Silicon Valley companies, Jim Clark, and the entrepreneurial culture that dominated the area during the height of the Internet boom. ... A view of downtown San Jose, the self-proclaimed Capital of Silicon Valley. ... Entrepreneurs created by Thomas Clarke in 2001. ...

Four years later, Lewis again entered the cultural mainstream with Moneyball, in which he investigated the dramatic success of Billy Beane and the Oakland A's, a baseball team which won consistently despite not being particularly well-funded by Major League Baseball standards. He noted the influence of prior baseball thinkers like Bill James on the Oakland front office, which used their arguments to find underrated baseball players. In contrast to other teams which still considered potential players almost entirely on their physical abilities, such as speed and strength, Beane considered prior performance at the college and high school level. This allowed him to find players whose physical skills might have been ordinary, but were still able to play extraordinarily well on the field. James also argued that certain skills, such as the ability to get on base, were equally valuable as the ability to hit, though most baseball decision makers considered the latter to be of more importance. Beane was thus able to find players who were able to provide high value for bargain prices. Lewis determined that these strategies, among others, allowed the relatively cash-poor A's to often outperform much wealthier teams. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael M. Lewis in 2003 about the general manager of the Major League Baseball team Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, and his teams approach to running the organization. ... William Lamar Billy Beane (born March 29, 1962 in Orlando, Florida) is a former Major League Baseball player and the current general manager of the Oakland Athletics. ... Oakland Athletics American League AAA Sacramento River Cats AA Midland RockHounds A Stockton Ports Kane County Cougars Vancouver Canadians R Phoenix Athletics The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. ... A view of the playing field at Busch Memorial Stadium, St. ... Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. ... George William “Bill” James (born October 5, 1949 in Holton, Kansas) is a baseball writer, historian and statistician whose work has been widely influential. ...

Lewis is currently a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, a columnist for Bloomberg, and a visiting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He also writes the Dad Again column for Slate. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Bloomberg L.P. is a financial software service company founded by current New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg with the help of Thomas Secunda in 1981. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... Slate is an online news and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley and owned by Microsoft (as part of MSN). ...

Lewis was briefly married to former CNBC correspondent Kate Bohner before marrying the former Tabitha Soren on October 4, 1997. Together they have three children and currently live in Berkeley, California. CNBC (an abbrevation for the Consumer News and Business Channel, its official name until 1991) is a group of cable and satellite television Business news channels from the U.S., owned and operated by NBC Universal. ... Kate Bohner is an American journalist and writer. ... Tabitha Soren (born Tabitha Lee Sornberger on August 19, 1967 in San Antonio, Texas) was a reporter for MTV News. ... October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ... Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ...

Books

• 1989: Liar's Poker
• 1990 "Pacific Rift"
• 1992: The Money Culture
• 1997: Trail Fever (also published as Losers)
• 1999: The New New Thing
• 2001: Next: The Future Just Happened
• 2003: Moneyball
• 2005: Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
• 2006: The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Liars poker is a bar game that combines statistical reasoning with bluffing, and is played with the eight-digit serial number on a dollar bill. ... The New New Thing : A Silicon Valley Story is a book by Michael M. Lewis released in 1999 about the founder of several Silicon Valley companies, Jim Clark, and the entrepreneurial culture that dominated the area during the height of the Internet boom. ... Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael M. Lewis in 2003 about the general manager of the Major League Baseball team Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, and his teams approach to running the organization. ...

Stories

• 2005: Wading Toward Home

External links

• Website

• BBC television programme The Future Just Happened