2020.01.12迈克尔-刘易斯是一位畅销的非虚构作家和记者

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Michael Lewis is a best-selling non-fiction writer and journalist. He initially worked for an investment bank, and his experiences of Wall Street excess in the 1980s informed his acclaimed first book, Liar’s Poker. Three of his later books – Moneyball, The Blind Side and The Big Short – have been adapted into Hollywood feature films.

He was born in New Orleans in 1960, where his father was fond of quoting the family motto: 'Do as little as possible, and that unwillingly, for it is better to receive a light reprimand than perform an arduous task.' After studying at Princeton and the LSE, he joined an American bank in London, and wrote articles about the quirks of the industry under a pseudonym. In spite of his father’s opposition, he decided to quit his highly-paid job to become a writer.

In Moneyball, he examined how a struggling baseball team used intensive data analysis to find undervalued players overlooked by richer clubs. The Big Short focused on the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and his most recent book, The Fifth Risk, is about the Trump administration’s approach to government.

Michael lives in California with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their three children.

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迈克尔-刘易斯是一位畅销的非虚构作家和记者。他最初在一家投资银行工作，他在20世纪80年代对华尔街过度的经历为他广受好评的第一本书《说谎者的扑克牌》提供了信息。他后来的三本书--《钱球》、《盲点》和《大空头》--已被改编为好莱坞故事片。

他于1960年出生于新奥尔良，在那里，他的父亲喜欢引用家庭格言："尽可能少做，而且是不情愿地做，因为受到轻微的训斥比完成一项艰巨的任务要好。在普林斯顿大学和伦敦经济学院学习后，他加入了伦敦的一家美国银行，并以笔名写了一些关于这个行业的怪癖的文章。尽管他的父亲反对，他还是决定辞去高薪工作，成为一名作家。

在《钱球》中，他研究了一支陷入困境的棒球队如何利用密集的数据分析来寻找被更富有的俱乐部所忽视的被低估的球员。大空头》聚焦于次贷危机，而他最近的一本书《第五种风险》是关于特朗普政府对政府的态度。

迈克尔和他的妻子塔比莎-索伦以及他们的三个孩子住在加州。

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卡斯特威的最爱：芝加哥的《旧时光》。