Author, Columnist for The Wall Street Journal and SmartMoney, James B. Stewart combines the skills of an investigative reporter with the style and sensibility of a novelist, examining events in finance, law and politics that shape American society. The San Francisco Examiner called him “the journalist every journalist would like to be.”
From his Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal articles on the 1987 stock market crash to pieces about Enron, Whitewater, WorldCom and corporate governance, Stewart has explored the use and abuse of power at the highest levels of business and government.
He has written penetrating profiles of Tyco’s Dennis Kozlowski, Blackstone Group's Stephen Schwarzman, Michael Milken, and Jérôme Kerviel, the rogue trader who lost billions of euros for Société Générale. His acclaimed September 2009 cover story for The New Yorker, "Eight Days: The Battle to Save the American Financial System," which included revealing interviews with Ben Bernanke, Hank Paulson and Timothy Geithner, captured the fierce arguments and panicked dealmaking behind the scenes that brought about unprecedented government intervention in the days following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Stewart’s New York Times bestseller, Disney War: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom, won the Loeb Award for Best Business Book. His Heart of a Soldier was named “Best Book about 9/11” by TIME. His other bestsellers include Blood Sport, Blind Eye and Den of Thieves, the definitive account of 1980s Wall Street insider trading scandals.
A Harvard-educated lawyer, he is currently the Bloomberg Professor of Business and Economic Journalism at Columbia University. His SmartMoney column, “Common Sense,” which also runs in The Wall Street Journal, features his insights into business and investing trends.
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Columnist, Smart Money and The Wall Street Journal