Auslander

In this poignant and unflinching memoir, Michael Moritz, one of his generation’s best-known venture investors, puts himself and the history of his family under the microscope. Exploring their journey through documents inherited on the death of his mother takes him into a past of tragedy, inherited grief and the long shadows cast on Jewish life by World War II.

By setting this journey against the convulsive context of Trump’s America, its hatred, intolerance and ignorance, he creates a memoir that feels immediately relevant. That, as the narrator asserts, if it can happen somewhere, it can happen here.

At turns both poetic and interrogative, Ausländer is a memoir of painful recollection and an insightful examination of contemporary America.

Author Biography

Michael Moritz was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1954. A former Time journalist and regular contributor to the FT, he is the author of several books, including The Little Kingdom, the story of Apple’s years as a private business. He was a partner in Sequoia Capital for 35 years and led the business between 1995 and 2012, becoming one of the most successful investors of his generation. Together with his wife, the author Harriet Heyman, he formed Crankstart in 2001 – a San Francisco-based foundation devoted to helping those who might otherwise be left behind.