Article: Wall Street's Other Book Value.(growing pool of writers among Wall Street professionals)

As a junior analyst at JPMorgan, Dana Vachon found his job so dull he'd sneak out to Starbucks to write fiction, while David Bledin's debut novel was born of a rant about the long hours on Wall Street sent as an e-mail to friends.

During the eight years Peter Spiegelman spent on JPMorgan's trading floors designing trading software, he'd occasionally write a snippet of poetry, and Michael Lewis was so eager to put pen to paper while working at Salomon Brothers that he used his mother's maiden name as a pseudonym. Tom Bernard, who traded high-yield debt at Salomon Brothers and Lehman Brothers, idolized Ernest Hemingway as a teen and hoped to someday be a writer.

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