Mary Childs (journalist)

at 2022 Gaithersburg Book Festival

Mary Childs is an American financial journalist and non-fiction writer. She is co-host for Planet Money. ^[1] In 2022, she published The Bond King, a biography of PIMCO co-founder Bill H. Gross, through Flatiron Books. The book was included on "best of" lists from Literary Hub , ^[2] The New York Times , ^[3] and Investopedia . ^[4]

Childs graduated from Washington and Lee University with a degree in business journalism, ^[1] after which she reported for Barron’s , the Financial Times, and Bloomberg News. ^[5]

Books

• The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All. New York, NY: Flatiron Books. 2022. ISBN   978-1-250-12084-7. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

References

1. "Mary Childs". NPR . Archived from the original on May 17, 2024. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
2. Temple, Emily (December 8, 2022). "Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022". Literary Hub . Archived from the original on September 7, 2024. Retrieved October 8, 2024.
3. Sorkin, Andrew Ross; Mattu, Ravi; Warner, Bernhard; Kessler, Sarah; Gandel, Stephen; de la Merced, Michael J.; Hirsch, Lauren; Livni, Ephrat (January 2, 2023). "Turning the Page on 2022". The New York Times . Archived from the original on March 28, 2023. Retrieved October 7, 2024.
4. Lodge, Michelle (July 15, 2024). "The 7 Best Investing Books". Investopedia . Archived from the original on October 7, 2024. Retrieved October 8, 2024.
5. "Mary Childs | Authors". Macmillan. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
6. Stewart, James B. (March 14, 2022). "Bill Gross Ruled the Bond World for Years. Then He Was Deposed". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on May 17, 2024. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
7. Hill, Chris (April 14, 2022). "Investing Lessons From Bill Gross, "The Bond King"". The Motley Fool. Archived from the original on May 17, 2024. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
8. Grant, James (March 8, 2022). "'The Bond King' Review: Richly Crowned, Then Deposed". Wall Street Journal . Archived from the original on February 18, 2023. Retrieved October 7, 2024.

External links

• Official website
• How Mary Childs Wrote The Bond King, ICA VCU, Aug 9, 2022
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• "How Bill Gross Built a Bond Empire—Then Lost It All" . Bloomberg.com. April 4, 2022. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
• Morningstar, Inc. (April 20, 2022). The Long View: Mary Childs - The Rise and Fall of the Bond King . Retrieved October 8, 2024– via YouTube.
• "Book Club: The Bond King". MarketWatch. April 14, 2022. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
• Childs, Mary; Aronczyk, Amanda; Rubin, Willa; Messick, Molly (March 30, 2022). "The Bond King". Planet Money . NPR . Retrieved May 3, 2022.
• "The Bond King". Slate Money. Slate Magazine. March 26, 2022. Retrieved May 3, 2022.
• "Mary Childs on the Man Who Turned America's Economy Into a Literal Casino". Scheerpost. March 18, 2022. Retrieved May 3, 2022.