Andrew Ross Sorkin

Andrew Ross Sorkin (born February 19, 1977) is an American journalist and author focused on business and finance. He serves as a financial columnist for The New York Times, where he founded and edits the DealBook newsletter and annual conference series. Sorkin also co-anchors CNBC's Squawk Box, a morning program covering market news and interviews with business leaders.

Sorkin's career gained significant attention with his 2009 book Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves, which provided a chronological account of key events and decisions during the 2008 financial crisis, drawing on extensive interviews with executives and officials. The book became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a 2011 HBO film. In October 2025, he published 1929: The Crash and the Crash That Followed, examining the 1929 stock market crash through newly available archives and drawing parallels to modern market dynamics driven by technologies like artificial intelligence. Sorkin has also contributed as a co-creator and producer for the Showtime series Billions, which dramatizes high finance and regulatory conflicts.

Andrew Ross Sorkin was born on February 19, 1977, in New York City to Jewish parents Joan Ross Sorkin, a playwright, lyricist, and opera librettist, and Laurence T. Sorkin, a corporate lawyer specializing in antitrust and trade regulation who served as a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP.