<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Money management is one of our most practical survival skills--and also one we've convinced ourselves we're either born with or not. In reality, financial planning can be learned, like anything else. Part financial memoir and part research-based guide to attaining lifelong security, ... John will walk you through his own journey to financial literacy, which he admittedly started a bit late. He covers everything from investments to retirement and insurance to wills (at fifty-eight, he didn't have one), medical directives, and more"--Amazon.com.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>A New York Times</i> correspondent shares his financial successes and mishaps, offering an everyman's guide to straightening out your money once and for all.</b> <p/>Money management is one of our most practical survival skills--and also one we've convinced ourselves we're either born with or not. In reality, financial planning can be learned, like anything else. Part financial memoir and part research-based guide to attaining lifelong security, <i>This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order</i> is the book that everyone who has never wanted to read a preachy financial guide has been waiting for. <p/>John Schwartz and his wife, Jeanne, are pre-retirement workers of an economic class well above the poverty line, but well below the one percent. Sharing his own alternately harrowing and hilarious stories--from his brush with financial ruin and bankruptcy in his thirties to his short-lived budgeted diet of cafeteria french fries and gravy--John will walk you through his own journey to financial literacy, which he admittedly started a bit late. He covers everything from investments to retirement and insurance to wills (at fifty-eight, he didn't have one!), medical directives and more. Whether you're a college grad wanting to start out on the right foot or you're approaching retirement age and still wondering what a 401(K) is, <i>This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order</i> will help you become your own best financial adviser.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>John Schwartz</b> is a reporter at <i>The New York Times</i>, where he has written about science, business, law and many other topics that have taken him from the Mojave Desert to Moscow, and from Nanjing to Nashville; he has explored the devastation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, tumbled in zero gravity, flown a jetpack, and reported stories from river dredges, helicopters and sewers. He also writes a humor column on investing for the <i>Times</i>. A native of Galveston, Texas, John is married to Jeanne Mixon, his college sweetheart. They have three children.