About the Author

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LUCAS FRANKLIN is the great^8-grandson of Josiah Franklin, Benjamin Franklin’s father. 

Franklin is also the great-grandson of a Cherokee Indian.

Born in California, Franklin was raised biculturally in both Mexico and the United States.

Intrigued early by finance, he became a broker in college, later withdrawing from school to become a floor trader on the Mexican Stock Exchange.  

His first novel—Un Principiante en Wall Street/The Wall Street Apprentice—a satire of Mexican stock market— was published in 1997. 

Today, he lives in New England with his wife, Kristin.