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WINTHROP KNOWLTON

The retired financier and official wwword reader updates us on his December books, in the order he read them. Knowlton, now retired, has been a U.S. Treasury official; chairman and CEO of the publishing house Harper & Row (now HarperCollins); president of the New York City Ballet; professor at the Kennedy School for Public Policy at Harvard University; and most recently a money manager. He lives in New York City and reads 100 or more books a year.