Alice Schroeder
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Alice Lynnette Davey Schroeder is an American executive, financial journalist, and author who was Berkshire Hathaway's leading sell-side insurance analyst at Morgan Stanley and later became Warren Buffett's appointed biographer. Schroeder remains a widely-regarded insurance expert, having most recently served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Prudential PLC. In the first week of October 2008, she published The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, a New York Times bestseller. As a project manager for the US Financial Accounting Standards Board, she oversaw the release of SFAS No. 113, a critical change in US reinsurance accounting regulations. Since 2008, Schroeder has worked as a columnist for Bloomberg News.
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Alice Schroeder is an American financial journalist and former Morgan Stanley insurance analyst best known as Warren Buffett's appointed biographer. LuvemBooks has reviewed 1 of her books, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, which was built on six years of unprecedented access and over 2,000 hours in Buffett's personal files — a depth of sourcing no other Buffett biography matches. It holds a reader rating of 4.6/5 from over 5,000 Amazon ratings.
- Where should I start?
- Start with The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life — it's the book we've reviewed and the work Schroeder is known for. It's the first biography of Buffett written with his full cooperation, so it functions as both the definitive entry point and the deepest available account of his investing career and private life. At 960 pages it's a commitment, but it holds a 4.6/5 reader rating from over 5,000 Amazon ratings.
- What's their writing style?
- Based on The Snowball, Schroeder writes deeply sourced, access-driven biography: the book rests on six years of cooperation with its subject and over 2,000 hours in his personal files. Her background as an insurance analyst shows in the way she treats Buffett's business career with the same seriousness as his private life, giving the financial material genuine authority. The result is exhaustive rather than breezy — a 960-page account that prioritizes depth of record.
- Books we've reviewed
- We've reviewed 1 book by Alice Schroeder. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (reader rating 4.6/5 from 5,019 Amazon ratings) is the first Buffett biography written with his full cooperation — 960 pages drawn from six years of access and over 2,000 hours in his personal files, covering both his investing career and private life.
- What genre do they write?
- Based on the book we've reviewed, Alice Schroeder writes Biography & Memoir, specifically business biography. The Snowball combines the story of Warren Buffett's investing career with an account of his private life. Her background as a financial journalist and insurance analyst shapes the work's business focus.
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Alice Schroeder is an American executive, financial journalist, and author who was Berkshire Hathaway's leading sell-side insurance analyst at Morgan Stanley. She later became Warren Buffett's appointed biographer, a role that gave her singular access to his files and life. Her best-known work is The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life.
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