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Contributor: Sam Gwynne |
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Sam Gwynne is executive editor of Texas Monthly, having previously been a correspondent for Time. After receiving a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1977, he was awarded a teaching fellowship in the writing seminars program under novelist John Barth at Johns Hopkins. But his writing career bracketed a five-year career managing international loan portfolios in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia, first for Cleveland Trust and later in the Hong Kong office of First Interstate Bank of California. In the 1980s, Gwynne left banking to become a freelance writer, contributing to Harper’s, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Monthly and California Magazine, among others. His first book, Selling Money: A Young Banker’s Account of the Rise and Extraordinary Fall of the Great International Lending Boom, was published in 1985. In 1991, Gwynne and fellow Time correspondent Jonathan Beaty won the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Financial Reporting for their stories on the BCCI scandal for Time and the Jack Anderson Award as top investigative reporters of the year. Their bookThe Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI was named one of the top ten books of the year by BusinessWeek . |
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