A former Wall Street investment banker for seventeen years, William D. Cohan is the New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Silence, Money and Power, House of Cards, and The Last Tycoons, which won the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. He also wrote Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short and Why Wall Street Matters. He was a longtime special correspondent at Vanity Fair and is a founding partner of Puck, a new digital media venture. He writes often for the opinion pages of The New York Times and The Financial Times and he is a writer at large for AirMail. Over the years, he has also written for Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, The Atlantic, Institutional Investor, The New York Times, The Nation, and The Washington Post, among other publications. Cohan is a graduate of Duke University, the Columbia University School of Journalism, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
