Please join us for our second installment of the Buxton Books Debut Author Series with NPR’s Mary Childs. She will be in conversation about her first book, The Bond King, with LouAnn Lofton.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net worth ($200) and a knack for counting cards. $10,000 and countless casino bans later, he was hooked: so he enrolled in business school. The Bond King is the story of how that whiz kid made American finance his casino. Over the course of decades, Bill Gross turned the sleepy bond market into a destabilized game of high risk, high reward; founded Pimco, one of today’s most powerful, secretive, and cutthroat investment firms; helped to reshape our financial system in the aftermath of the Great Recession—to his own advantage; and gained legions of admirers, and enemies, along the way. Like every American antihero, his ambition would also be his undoing.

ABOUT MARY CHILDS:

Mary Childs is a co-host and correspondent for NPR’s Planet Money podcast. Previously she was a reporter at Barron’s magazine, the Financial Times, and Bloomberg News. She graduated from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, with a degree in business journalism.

ABOUT LOUANN LOFTON:

LouAnn Lofton is an author, editor, and book lover living in Charleston, South Carolina. She worked for years as a writer and then as Managing Editor for the financial education website, The Motley Fool. She published her first book, Warren Buffett Invests Like a Girl: And Why You Should, Too, in June 2011, and still can’t believe the Oracle of Omaha himself invited her to brunch as a result. She's currently working on her second book, a memoir about her 1980s childhood in small-town Mississippi and the fallout following her father's unexpected death when she was 14. If she's not writing, she's probably reading. Or napping.

This is a free, in-person event!