The Big Short was written by Michael Lewis, an American author and financial journalist. The full title of the book is The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine and it was written in 2010.
The premise of The Big Short is a description of the build-up to the US housing bubble of the 2000s. Michael Lewis provides an in-depth account of the activities of the individuals who predicted it and ultimately made a lot of money betting that it would happen.
Was The Big Short made into a film?
The Big Short was made into a 2015 film, directed by Adam McKay, with a star-studded line-up including Christian Bale, Steve Carrell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt. The book features many of the same characters seen in the later film, such such as Mark Baum, Jared Vennett and Michael Burry. Michael Lewis was closely involved with the screenplay of the film.
Reviews of the book were generally very positive. In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani praised the book as “superbly well-written” and “a tour de force of reportage” that “reads like a thriller.” In The Guardian, Ed Crooks described the book as “a gripping account” and “an astonishing story” that “reads like a novel.”
The Big Short has been translated into many languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Arabic.
He is also famous for his books about politics (The Fifth Risk and Losers), Silicon Valley (The New New Thing), baseball (Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game and Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life) and American football (The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game).
