Mary Childs (journalist)

Mary Childs is an American financial journalist and non-fiction writer. She is co-host for Planet Money.^[1] In 2022, she published The Bond King, a biography of PIMCO co-founder Bill H. Gross, through Flatiron Books. The book was included on "best of" lists from Literary Hub,^[2] The New York Times,^[3] and Investopedia.^[4]

at 2022 Gaithersburg Book Festival

Childs graduated from Washington and Lee University with a degree in business journalism,^[1] after which she reported for Barron’s, the Financial Times, and Bloomberg News.^[5]

Books

• The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All. New York, NY: Flatiron Books. 2022. ISBN 978-1-250-12084-7.^[6][7][8]