Alice Schroeder is an American author, columnist, former senior adviser to Morgan Stanley, and former Wall Street insurance analyst who now serves as an independent board member for Prudential plc. In the first week of October 2008, she published The Snowball, Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, which debuted as a #1 New York Times bestseller. Since 2008, she has been a columnist for Bloomberg News. In 2008 BusinessWeek, chose her alongside Ben Bernanke and Hillary Clinton as one of the "People to Watch in 2008." Snowball was named a finalist at the 2009 Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism and shortlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Book of the Year. [More at Wikipedia]

December 14th, 1956 in (Age 67)