Michael Lewis is a nonfiction writer and financial journalist. He is best known for the books Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, and Moneyball.

"The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job."

— Michael Lewis, Moneyball