Value Investing is the most literary of all the investment paradigms.  It was invented by Benjamin Graham, a man who was not without certain literary qualities.  As a prodigious student at Columbia, he was given a choice of instructorships ranging from Mathematics to English and Philosophy. Pragmatism drew him to finance.  Alice Schroder’s Snowball: Warren Buffet and the Business of Life provides very moving portrait of the Dean of Wall Street, often withdrawing from the company of men and longing to commune with the likes Virgil, Horace, and Juvenal.  “Money isn’t everything” he tells a young Buffet at a cafeteria in lower Manhattan.  No, among Graham’s other pastimes were philandering, teaching, and writing, the trifecta of almost all literary figures.