The Council Literary Series:
Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis has published many New York Times bestselling books on various subjects. His most recent works are The Fifth Risk, The Undoing Project, Flash Boys, and two books turned movies, The Big Short and The Blind Side. He is a columnist for Bloomberg View and a contributing writer to Audible. His articles have also appeared in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Gourmet, Slate, Sports Illustrated, Foreign Affairs, and Poetry Magazine. He has served as editor and columnist for the British weekly The Spectator and as senior editor and campaign correspondent for The New Republic. He has filmed and narrated short pieces for ABC-TV’s “Nightline;” created and presented a four part documentary on the social consequences of the internet for the British Broadcasting Company, and recorded stories for the American public radio show, This American Life.

Michael Lewis holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from Princeton and a master’s degree in economics from the London School of Economics. He lives with wife, Tabitha Soren, and their children in Berkeley, California.