The teenage daughter of “Moneyball” author Michael Lewis and photographer Tabitha Soren died this week in a head-on vehicle collision on a highway in Truckee, Calif.
Dixie Lewis, the 19-year-old daughter of bestselling author Michael Lewis was killed in a head on collision with a semi truck in California on Tuesday. She was killed along with her boyfriend, Ross Shultz.
, confirmed that she was the second person who died in the accident.
Lewis was the daughter of award-winning author and journalist Michael Lewis, who is perhaps best known for writing the book behind the 2011 movie “Moneyball.” Michael Lewis authored numerous other bestselling nonfiction works, including a book that inspired the 2009 football film “The Blindside.”
At the time of her death, Lewis had just finished her first year at Pomona College, where she played softball and was planning to pursue an education in neuroscience.
Schultz was about to start his third year at Cal Poly Pomona, where he had majored in kinesiology.
Honesty Liller started using drugs when she was 12.
“I just wanted to fit in with my friends,” she said. It was the start of a rocky journey that Liller, now 40, said took her to many dark places and made her a very different person.
“With a name like Honesty I would lie, lie, lie,” she added. But when she was 26 years old,
a phone call with her father made her realize the “living hell” she had put her family through. That’s when she decided to reach out for help.
Liller’s story is one in a widespread opioid crisis that has gripped the US since the late 1990s. Since 1999 the number of drug overdose deaths has quadrupled, with nearly 500,000 people dying from an overdose involving an opioid between 1999 and 2019, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.