The Investor's Shelf — one person
Jesse Livermore
Speculator, 1890s-1940; the trader behind Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
A legendary trading record and one late book of his own, though the canonical account of him was written by Lefevre.
1 books of their own · 5 biographies about them
Books they wrote 1
· 1940 · His only book; sets out pivotal points and time-element trading.
Biographies about them 5
The foundational text is a fictionalised biography, which has made the factual record unusually hard to pin down.
Edwin Lefèvre · 1923 · Fictionalised biography; Livermore appears as Larry Livingston.
Paul Sarnoff · 1967 · The first outside biography; thin, but the earliest attempt at the facts.
Richard Smitten · 2001 · The fullest straight biography, drawing on family sources.
Richard Smitten · 1999 · Smitten's first Livermore volume, largely superseded by his 2001 biography.
Tom Rubython · 2015 · Popular retelling; foreword by Paul Tudor Jones.