Roger Lowenstein

Roger Lowenstein was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal for many years before becoming a full-time financial author. His 1995 biography "Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist" was the first comprehensive account of Warren Buffett's investment philosophy and life story, drawing on extensive interviews with those who knew Buffett personally. The book played a significant role in shaping the global understanding of value investing principles and Buffett's approach to business evaluation. His 2000 book "When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management" is considered the definitive account of LTCM's spectacular 1998 collapse, covering the personalities of Meriwether, Scholes, Merton, and the firm's traders, the strategies they employed, and the political economy of the Fed-orchestrated bailout. The book became required reading in business schools as a case study in leverage, model risk, and systemic financial fragility. He also wrote "Origins of the Crash" (2004) on corporate governance failures, and "America's Bank" (2015) on the founding of the Federal Reserve. Lowenstein represents the best tradition of financial journalism — bringing complex financial stories to general audiences with accuracy and narrative skill.