Boring and Soaring

After an undergraduate degree from Princeton and an MA from lowa, Yuval Taylor worked in the publishing industry for thirty years as an editor of non-fiction books, specializing in music, film, and African American history. He is also a writer, and has published three non-fiction books with W. W. Norton, most recently Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal, as well as articles in The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, GQ, and elsewhere.

He started trading in 2013 when he lived in Bolivia and found he had some extra money from the low cost of living there. He made enough from investing to enable him and his wife to retire in 2022. Before that, though, he worked for Portfolio123, a small financial technology firm, for a few years, and still does pro bono work for them and their clients. In 2024, he successfully launched a hedge fund, Fieldsong Investments, and is its portfolio manager.