Gregory Zuckerman discussed his book, The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters, at MOI Global’s Meet-the-Author Summer Forum 2019. Greg is a Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal.
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About the book:
Things looked grim for American energy in 2006, but a handful of wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that giants like Exxon and Chevron had ignored. They risked everything on a new process called fracking. Within a few years, they solved America’s dependence on imported energy, triggered a global environmental controversy, and made and lost astonishing fortunes.
No one understands the frackers — their ambitions, personalities, and foibles — better than Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman. His exclusive access drives this dramatic narrative, which stretches from North Dakota to Texas to Wall Street.
About the author:
Gregory Zuckerman is a Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal. He writes about big financial trades, hedge funds, private-equity firms and other investing and business topics. In the past, Greg wrote the Heard on the Street column and covered the credit markets for the paper.
Greg is the author of The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters, published in 2013 by Penguin Press. He’s also the author of The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History, published in 2010 by Random House. Greg and his two sons wrote Rising Above: How 11 Athletes Overcame Challenges in their Youth to Become Stars, and Rising Above: Inspiring Women in Sports, books for young readers and adults that describe the moving and remarkable stories of how various stars overcame imposing setbacks in their youth.
In November, PenguinRandomHouse will publish Greg’s latest book, The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution.
Greg joined the Journal in 1996 after writing about media companies for the New York Post. Previously, he was the managing editor of Mergers & Acquisitions Report, a newsletter published by Investment Dealers’ Digest.
Greg graduated from Brandeis University in 1988, Magna Cum Laude. He lives with his wife and two sons in West Orange, N.J., where they enjoy the Yankees in the summer, the Giants in the fall, and reminisce about Jeremy Lin in the winter.
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