Michael Lewis just dropped two big hints about what he's working on next

Financial writer Michael Lewis, the acclaimed author of “Liar’s Poker, “The Big Short” and “Flash Boys,” dropped some hints about what he’s working on right now.

“The last couple of years since I finished ‘Flash Boys’, I wrote a screenplay for ‘Liar’s Poker’, which doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere,” Lewis said at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas.

“I’m a failed screenwriter,” he joked.

“The hero of ‘Liar’s Poker’ is Louis Ranieri," he continued. "I think he is a hero. I think the invention of the mortgage bond is a great thing. I wrote a TV show which may go somewhere set on Wall Street in the 1920s based on the life of Jesse Livermore, who’s an unbelievable character.”

Livermore was a legendary trader who made millions during the 1929 stock market crash. His life was chronicled in Edwin Lefevre's "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator." He made millions, declared bankruptcy a few times, and killed himself in 1940.

Lewis is also working on another book. He’s been working on it on and off for the last eight years. He said he “can’t talk about it,” but he did provide a hint about its subject.

“I’ll tell you what it is — it’s the prequel to ‘Moneyball,’” Lewis said, referring to his book about the Oakland A’s baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane.

“It is the story of people figuring out how the mind works when it’s faced with making investment decisions. How it functions in conditions of uncertainty.”

He’ll be finished in three months. He expects the book will come out in December.

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Julia La Roche is a finance reporter at Yahoo Finance.



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