About the author
Michael Lewis is an American author and financial journalist whose narrative nonfiction often follows people who notice a system's incentives or measurements from an unusual position. His subjects include finance, sport, technology, risk, government, and decision-making.
The Big Short follows investors who examined subprime mortgage bonds before the 2008 crash and found that market prices ignored the loans beneath them. Lewis makes financial structure readable by showing what each person saw, misunderstood, and stood to gain.
Where to start
Start with The Big Short for the financial crisis, Moneyball for measurement in baseball, or The Fifth Risk for the often invisible work of the U.S. government.
