The many accomplishments of Warren Buffett are well-known to most. But fewer people know what a huge impact his older sister, Doris, has had on the lives of thousands of people.
Michael Zitz seeks to help change that with the new biography he's written on Doris Buffett.
The official release of "Giving It All Away: The Doris Buffett Story" will be at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting May 1 in Omaha. It will be sold at the "Bookworm" store at the Qwest Center, and it's available now for pre-order. Zitz interviewed Warren Buffett, who wrote the book's foreword.
Doris Buffett started The Sunshine Lady Foundation in 1996. The private family foundation has since given away more than $100 million to abused women, prisoners being released to society, the mentally ill, early childhood education and more. Doris Buffett considers herself a "retail philanthropist," choosing individual recipients to give to. Her famous brother -- who has pledged his tens of billions mostly to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation -- is a "wholesale philanthropist."
Zitz, a long-time newspaper reporter, lives in Fredericksburg, Va., where Doris Buffett also resides most of the year. He's known Doris Buffett, now 82, for nearly 20 years.
Zitz has spent much of the past three years traveling with Doris Buffett -- including a visit to Omaha for last year's shareholders meeting -- and interviewing her as well as her close family and friends. His book shows how both Doris and Warren Buffett overcame an at-times difficult childhood to emerge as great successes.
The book promises to provide a window into the formative years of both of the Omaha natives. It includes many Buffett family photos that haven't previously been made public.
Warren Buffett mentioned the biography in this year's annual letter to shareholders along with new books by his two sons -- Howard's "Fragile" and Peter's [url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307464717?ie=UTF8&tag=warrbuffexam-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0307464717]"Life Is What You Make It."[/url]Zitz says he and Doris Buffett will be signing copies of the new biography at the "Bookworm" during this year's annual meeting.
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The official release of "Giving It All Away: The Doris Buffett Story" will be at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting May 1 in Omaha. It will be sold at the "Bookworm" store at the Qwest Center, and it's available now for pre-order. Zitz interviewed Warren Buffett, who wrote the book's foreword.
Doris Buffett started The Sunshine Lady Foundation in 1996. The private family foundation has since given away more than $100 million to abused women, prisoners being released to society, the mentally ill, early childhood education and more. Doris Buffett considers herself a "retail philanthropist," choosing individual recipients to give to. Her famous brother -- who has pledged his tens of billions mostly to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation -- is a "wholesale philanthropist."
Zitz, a long-time newspaper reporter, lives in Fredericksburg, Va., where Doris Buffett also resides most of the year. He's known Doris Buffett, now 82, for nearly 20 years.
Zitz has spent much of the past three years traveling with Doris Buffett -- including a visit to Omaha for last year's shareholders meeting -- and interviewing her as well as her close family and friends. His book shows how both Doris and Warren Buffett overcame an at-times difficult childhood to emerge as great successes.
The book promises to provide a window into the formative years of both of the Omaha natives. It includes many Buffett family photos that haven't previously been made public.
Warren Buffett mentioned the biography in this year's annual letter to shareholders along with new books by his two sons -- Howard's "Fragile" and Peter's [url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307464717?ie=UTF8&tag=warrbuffexam-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0307464717]"Life Is What You Make It."[/url]Zitz says he and Doris Buffett will be signing copies of the new biography at the "Bookworm" during this year's annual meeting.
