Roger Lowenstein

Author of Buffett: The Biography, which Kyle read in 2018. The book traces Warren Buffett’s career arc — from Graham-style “cigar butt” bargains to buying great businesses at fair prices — and Kyle’s notes credit Lowenstein with framing Buffett’s edge as “a genius of character — of patience, discipline, and rationality,” and with drawing out the influence of Benjamin Graham, Charlie Munger, and Philip Fisher on Buffett’s evolution as a Value Investing practitioner.

Context: Roger Lowenstein is an American financial journalist and author. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (1995) is among his best-known works; he also wrote When Genius Failed on the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management.

Where this appears

• Buffett: The Biography — the author; tracer of Buffett’s arc from cigar-butt bargains to great businesses, and of the Graham/Munger/Fisher influences.