John Brooks
Biography and Books
Biography
Full Name: John Brooks
Date of Birth: 5 December 1920
Date of Death: 27 July 1993
John Brooks was a writer and longtime contributor to The New Yorker magazine, where he worked for many years as a staff writer, specializing in financial topics. Brooks was also the author of several books, both fiction and non-fiction, the best known of which was an examination of the financial shenanigans of the 1960s Wall Street bull market.