LOS ANGELES – In a Northern California highway incident, the 19-year-old daughter of ‘Moneyball’ Writer Michael Lewis’ and former MTV journalist Tabitha Soren perished.
According to her family and officials, Dixie Lewis was a passenger in a car driven by her friend and former Berkeley High School classmate Ross Schultz, 20, who also died in the Tuesday afternoon collision.
Michael Lewis stated in a statement to Berkeleyside, a community news site that initially reported the deaths, “We loved her so much and are in a type of grief none of us has experienced.” “She was in love with Ross, and she died with him. Our hearts are devastated because she loved to live, and we can’t find the words to express how we feel.”
According to California Highway Patrol Officer Jacob Williams, Schultz and Lewis were driving north on State Route 89 from Lake Tahoe toward the city of Truckee when their automobile crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with a southbound truck.
Saturday calls to the CHP for more information on the collision were not immediately responded to.
Several of Michael Lewis’ nonfiction works have been made into films, including Brad Pitt’s “Moneyball” and Sandra Bullock’s “The Blind Side.” “The Premonition: A Pandemic Story,” his latest book, is out now.
Lewis married Soren, an MTV political reporter who is also a photographer, in 1997.