Maggie Mahar is the author of
Bull! A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004, a book Paul Krugman of the
New York Times said "makes a devastating case against the contention that the market is almost perfectly efficient." In his 2003 annual report, Warren Buffett recommended
Bull! to Berkshire Hathaway's investors. Before becoming a financial journalist in 1982, when she began to write for
Money magazine,
Institutional Investor, the
New York Times, Bloomberg, and
Barron's, Mahar was an English professor at Yale University. She lives in New York City.