‘Big Short’ Author Michael Lewis Spent Months With FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried and Is Writing a Book

“His childhood, early success on Wall Street, embrace of effective altruism and the creation of a crypto empire that catapulted him in record time into the ranks of the richest people in the world seemed more than sufficient for a signature Michael Lewis book,” the letter said. “The events of the past week have provided a dramatic surprise ending to the story.”