A look at some of the personalities at TW FestMichael Lewis went to Newman. I didn't know that, but in New Orleans where you went to high school trumps all; it probably means more, locally, than the fact that he went to Princeton and then the London School of Economics. He hit the big time with Liar's Poker, which was one of the big three 1980s go-go greedfest stories that seemed to sum up the decade (along with The Bonfire of the Vanities and Oliver Stone's Wall Street).
Fortunately for readers, he left Salomon Brothers and followed a writing career; he's now a contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and he's written a slew of books, including The New New Thing (a look at Silicon Valley) and Moneyball (about the hapless but somehow successful Oakland A's). Right now Michael lives in Berkeley and Paris with his family.
Oh, and remember Tabitha Soren, the anchor from MTV News back in the day? His wife.
Thu., Mar. 29, 3:15 pm:
"Michael Lewis: Behind the Zeitgeist" (master class)
Sat., Mar. 31, 1 pm:
"Politics as Theater/Theater as Politics"
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