The Snowball is a revealing and complete look at the life, wisdom and philosophy of Buffett, from the development of his outlook on the world and the principles he lives by to the business secrets he has never before shared publicly. Schroeder was the first and only analyst to obtain an interview with the famously reticent Buffett. Telling the New York Times, "I like the way she thinks and writes," he gave Schroeder unprecedented access to himself, his files and his network, devoting massive amounts of his time over the course of five years as she researched and wrote the book.
An Amazon #1 Business and Investing Book of the Year, The Snowball has been called by reviewers the “bible of capitalism,” “penetrating,” “brave,” “startlingly frank,” and a book that is “almost impossible to stop reading.” It was named one of the 10 best books of the year by TIME and a "definitive portrait" by Janet Maslin in The New York Times. The book also was the subject of a Jay Leno joke and was demonstrated by Oprah as one of the first books she downloaded on her new Kindle.
Schroeder came to journalism armed with substantial business experience as a 15-year veteran of Wall Street and having been ranked at the top of her profession in the Institutional Investor All-America Research poll. A former managing director at Morgan Stanley, she began her career as an auditor for Ernst & Young and was a regulator with the Financial Accounting Standards Board, where she drafted some of the most significant accounting rules affecting the insurance industry. Her 54-page report for PaineWebber on Berkshire Hathaway in 1999 was the first comprehensive look at Buffett's company and became a bestseller.
Schroeder’s editorials and articles have appeared in such publications as The Washington Post, Bloomberg News, BusinessWeek, and The Huffington Post. She has appeared on The Today Show, Bloomberg's Taking Stock, Nightly Business Report, ABC World News Tonight and various programs on CNBC, CNN, NPR, the BBC and Fox Business.
She currently is working on two books: an investing book that will reveal for the first time exactly how Warren Buffett selected his investments and got rich; and another book on “adaptive entrepreneurship" for "the new normal" following the financial crisis and great recession. 
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