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9 unusual facts about Michael Lewis


Art Howe

Howe stated that he was unhappy with his portrayal in both the film and the Michael Lewis book it was based on, in which he was portrayed as a stubborn traditionalist who refused to follow Beane's plans and a figurehead who acquiesced while Beane ran the A's from the clubhouse.

Carol Roth

Roth also appeared in the online series BOOKD, where she analyzed Michael Lewis' The Big Short alongside Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes, investor Peter Schiff and others.

Credit rating agencies and the subprime crisis

Journalist Michael Lewis argues that the low pay of credit rating agency employees allowed security issuers to game the ratings of their securities.

Dan Szymborski

Szymborski is a member of Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and is best known for contributions to BaseballPrimer.com, now known as Baseball Think Factory, after the site was featured by TIME in 2002 and 2003's Moneyball by Michael Lewis.

James H. Clark

Clark was the main subject of the 1999 bestseller The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by U.S. author Michael Lewis.

John Gutfreund

Gutfreund was featured prominently in the 1989 book Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, a former employee of Salomon Brothers.

Next: The Future Just Happened

Next: The Future Just Happened is a book by Michael Lewis published on July 17, 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company.

Tabitha Soren

Soren married author Michael Lewis in 1997; they have three children: Quinn Tallulah, Dixie Lee, and Walker Jack.

Vatopedi monastery

The financial writer Michael Lewis reports that a Greek parliamentary commission estimated the value of government property received by the monastery at one billion euros.


Adam Moss

During his time there, the magazine included as regular contributors Michael Lewis, Andrew Sullivan, Michael Pollan, Lynn Hirschberg, Jennifer Egan, and Frank Rich, among others.

Joe Horn

After scoring his second touchdown in a game in which he would score four, he pulled a cell phone out from underneath the goalpost padding with the help of teammate Michael Lewis and pretended to make a call.

Kate Bohner

She was briefly married to author Michael Lewis, known for his bestselling books Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, The Blind Side, and Moneyball.

Kaveh Alamouti

During the days as depicted in Michael Lewis's book Liar's Poker, Alamouti was in charge of Proprietary Arbitrage trading at Solomon Brothers Int.


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Lezlie Deane

In the 1990s she was recruited by producers Peter Rafelson and Michael Lewis to join the dance-pop group Fem2fem, and toured Europe and North America as an opening act for Nine Inch Nails (NIN) and Marilyn Manson.

Michael Lewis Becker

'Michael Lewis "Mike" Becker' (born October 30, 1940 in Toledo, Ohio) was a major Madison Avenue advertising creative director.

Secular Coalition for America

Advisors to the Secular Coalition for America are Woody Kaplan, chair; Rob Boston; Daniel Dennett; Richard Dawkins; Rebecca Goldstein; Sam Harris; Jeff Hawkins; Wendy Kaminer; Michael Lewis; Michael Newdow; Steven Pinker; Salman Rushdie; Ellery Schempp; Todd Stiefel; and Julia Sweeney.

Sparkling Cyanide

In 1983, CBS adapted the book for television, directed by Robert Michael Lewis, set in the modern day and starring Anthony Andrews as the central character, Tony Browne.

The blindside

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, a 2006 book about American Football, by Michael Lewis