Contact

The author, Julian Wiseman, can be contacted by email via the username “jdaw1” (the last character of which is the digit one, not the letter el), at the domain name “jdawiseman.com”, or via one of three mobile phone numbers: usually French +33 6 3440 7680; sometimes UK +44 7768 95 0123; and very rarely US +1 212 300 6624.

Employment

The author commenced employment in the financial markets in 1992, since when he has worked for J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse First Boston, the Bank of England, and The Rohatyn Group, an emerging-market hedge fund.

Pricing Money

The author’s only book (so far), Pricing Money: A Beginner’s Guide to Money, Bonds, Futures and Swaps, was published by Wiley in 2001. Of this, Chapter 1: Money Markets and the Table of Contents are also published at jdawiseman.com. Pricing Money is available from Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Amazon.fr, and other bookshops: cite ISBN 978-0-471-48700-5.

Personal

The author is British, and lives in Paris with his wife, Mrs MaryAnne Wiseman, née Shiozawa, formerly a chiropractor practising in Manhattan. They have one daughter born in 2006, Sophia Wiseman, one son born in 2009, Maximilian Wiseman, as well as a chocolate-brown Labrador named Tanner.

The author is editor jdaw1 at dmoz.org, also known as the Open Directory Project. There is plenty that needs doing: become an editor yourself.

In February 2009 the author was voted into the membership of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club.

Research

A co-author and I are attempting to make a list of every vintage port ever made (‘declared’), starting from the beginning in the late eighteeth century. Alas, official pre-World War II and nineteenth-century records are incomplete, so we are also looking at other sources. It might be that some readers of jdawiseman.com possess (copies of) cellar books, menus, wine-merchant invoices, diaries, correspondence, or other papers mentioning particular vintage ports. Please, if that’s you, contact me. We promise to handle archives gently.

If you lack old cellar books but still wish to help, please retweet this tweet: For history of vintage port and drinking thereof I want to see old cellar books. Have you any? — jdawiseman.com/author.html. Please retweet.