Daughter of author Michael Lewis one of 2 killed in Tahoe car crash
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Dixie Lewis and Ross Schultz at her graduation from Berkeley High in 2020.Tabitha SorenShow MoreShow Less
The teenage daughter of Berkeley writer Michael Lewis and her boyfriend were both killed Tuesday in a head-on collision on State Route 89 outside of Truckee.
Dixie Lewis, 19, was a passenger in a 2014 Ford Fusion being driven by Ross Schultz, 20, also of Berkeley, when it crossed the center line traveling northbound and crashed into a Freightliner semi truck being driven southbound by a a 45-year-old man from Fernley, Nev. The accident happened around 3:30 p.m. on 89, which connects Truckee to Tahoe City, north of Cabin Creek Road.
Schultz s Ford crossed into the southbound lanes, hitting the Freightliner head on. Schultz and Lewis were killed. We loved her so much and are in a kind of pain none of us has experienced, Michael Lewis said in a statement. She loved Ross, with whom she died. She loved to live and our hearts are so broken they can t find the words to describe the feeling. Her mother, Tabitha, and I, and her brother Walker and sister Quinn are going to find ways for her memory to live in her absence.
Juan Raygoza, principal of Berkeley High School, where the two young people went to school, said, Berkeley High School alumni Dixie Lewis and Ross Schultz were each amazing human beings and will both be missed in deep and lasting ways in our school community.
Michael Lewis has been making the rounds promoting The Premonition , his new book about the pandemic. Now, that good news has been shattered after tragedy struck the Berkeley.
The daughter of famed Berkeley author and financial journalist Michael Lewis has died in a collision near Truckee, California Highway Patrol officials said.
Michael Lewis, the financial journalist and author of Moneyball, The Big Short, The Fifth Risk, and the current bestseller The Premonition, has confirmed that his 19-year-old daughter was killed with her boyfriend in a head-on car crash this week. Dixie Lewis, 19, and Ross Schultz, 20, were both pronounced dead at the scene of the Tuesday afternoon collision near Truckee, California. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Schultz was driving.