A month ago, Vanity Fair deputy editor Doug Stumpf took writer Michael Lewis out to dinner. Now Lewis has agreed to write exclusively for Vanity Fair and drop his contracts with
Conde Nast's Portfolio and The New York Times Magazine.
This is considered a major coup for Vanity Fair, at a time when financial coverage is on the front burner for
nearly every media outlet. Lewis is "perhaps the most important financial journalist in the country." His 2003 book "Moneyball" about the business of baseball spent 18 weeks on the best-seller list
and sold about 630,000 copies.
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