![]() Norton), began as a cover story he wrote for the New York Times Magazine on Billy Fitzgerald, the besieged baseball coach at the New Orleans prep school Lewis attended. ![]() Lewis' most recent work, a deceptively modest book called "Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life" ( W.W. (It so angered sports writer Buzz Bissinger, of "Friday Night Lights" fame, that his recent book, "3 Nights in August," a portrait of Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, is designed as an explicit counterattack.) ![]() ![]() The book poked fun at the George Steinbrenners of this world at the same time it infuriated sports traditionalists offended by his embrace of statistical models as a road map to success. More recently he is the author of "Moneyball," the best-selling portrait of Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane's unconventional methods. J., and Marcus Arnold, a 15-year-old from a desert town halfway between Los Angeles and Palm Springs who turned himself into one of the highest-ranked "legal experts" on an electronic advice board. ![]() Since then, Lewis has become perhaps the pre-eminent literary financial journalist of our time, in works like "The New New Thing," about Netscape co- founder Jim Clark, and "Next: The Future Just Happened," a collection of pieces about how the Internet has changed our lives, including hilarious profiles of Jonathan Lebed, a 13-year-old stock speculator from Cedar Grove, N. ![]()
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