Donate

Person

Michael Lewis

Tags

Share

The 2011 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Michael Lewis for The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, which describes the escalating U.S. housing bubble in the 2000s and subsequent financial crisis of 2007-8.

Michael Lewis is an author and financial journalist. Lewis has been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009 and has won multiple Gerald Loeb Awards and Los Angeles Times Book Prizes for his writing.

Help us protect human rights

Please give now. Your contribution will make a difference in the critical effort to achieve equal rights for all.

New year, new us. Same mission.

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is rebranding to honor the legacy of our founder and hero, Mrs. Ethel Skakel Kennedy. From now on, we will proudly be known as the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center. 

While our name is changing, our mission and work remain the same. We will continue to fight injustice, advance human rights, and hold governments accountable around the world in 2026 and beyond.

Learn more →