The Investor's Shelf — one person
Benjamin Graham
Co-founder, Graham-Newman Corporation; lecturer in finance, Columbia Business School 1928-1956
Security Analysis and The Intelligent Investor are the founding texts of value investing and remain the primary source every later value investor argues from.
6 books of their own · 4 biographies about them · 3 articles · 1 books they recommend
Books they wrote 6
· 1937 · Subtitled A Modern Ever-Normal Granary; commodity-reserve currency plan.
Spencer B. Meredith · 1937 · Later editions revised with Charles McGolrick.
· 1949 · Revised through the 1973 fourth edition; 2003 Jason Zweig commentary edition.
· 1996 · Published posthumously; edited by Seymour Chatman.
Biographies about them 4
Thinly biographied for so central a figure; his own memoirs and textbooks remain the primary record.
Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin, Michael van Biema · 2001 · Columbia course text tracing Graham's method through its later practitioners.
Janet Lowe · 1994 · Part life, part method; based on interviews with his circle.
Joe Carlen · 2012 · The only full biography; workmanlike rather than definitive.
Irving Kahn, Robert D. Milne · 1977 · Short monograph by a student and colleague.
Research papers 1
- Money as Pure CommodityThe American Economic Review, 1947
Articles and essays 2
- The Undistributed Profits Tax and the InvestorThe Yale Law Journal, 1936
- Some Calculus Suggestions by a StudentThe American Mathematical Monthly, 1917
Books they recommend 1
Quoted on the Investment Masters Class book list talking about his own books.
Graham on revealing everything he knows in his books 1
Investing 1
Benjamin Graham
“I have been accused of telling all my secrets. I have written a number of books, and I reveal them all in these books.”