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The actuary meets Franz Kafka

WEB PAGE ARTICLE | Daniel Skwire | November 30, 2012

Milliman actuary Dan Skwire talks about the surprisingly central role played by insurance in literature and film.

From the office of Franz Kafka

WEB PAGE ARTICLE | INCLUDES .PDF | Daniel D. Skwire | November 1, 2012

How did Kafka’s work in insurance inform his fiction?

Ed King: Examining Risk and Fate

WEB PAGE ARTICLE | Daniel Skwire | March 1, 2012

A recent novel provides an insightful treatment of the actuarial profession.

The literary lives of actuaries

WEB PAGE ARTICLE | Daniel Skwire | January 18, 2012

An interview with Milliman principal and consulting actuary Dan Skwire, author of a series of articles on the portrayal of actuaries and insurance professionals in literature.

David Graham Phillips and the Great American Insurance Novel

WEB PAGE ARTICLE | INCLUDES .PDF | Daniel Skwire | November 1, 2011

Light-Fingered Gentry: A harshly critical fictional treatment of the life insurance business in the early years of the 20th century.

Secret lives of actuaries

WEB PAGE ARTICLE | Daniel Skwire | May 1, 2010

From chick lit to David Foster Wallace, the depiction of actuaries in recent literature isn't exactly flattering.

Life, death, and insurance in film noir

WEB PAGE ARTICLE | Daniel Skwire | May 1, 2008

Double Indemnity was the first film to explore insurance in all its complexity.

The castaway actuary: Financial projects of Daniel Defoe

WEB PAGE ARTICLE | Daniel Skwire | January 1, 2008

The author of Robinson Crusoe developed a fascination for the rapidly evolving world of insurance, pensions, and actuarial science.

Uncalculated risks: The working lives of Wallace Stevens

WEB PAGE ARTICLE | Daniel Skwire | September 1, 2007

Can anyone make a good living as a poet? Insurance executive Wallace Stevens never had to find out.

Risk management and the Merchant of Venice

WEB PAGE ARTICLE | Daniel Skwire | May 1, 2007

Shakespeare wasn’t an actuary, but his picture of risk mismanagement in 16th-century Venice is right on the money.

Charles Dickens and the literary actuary

WEB PAGE ARTICLE | Daniel Skwire | September 1, 2001

The great Victorian novelist wrote far, far better stories than “Hunted Down,” but none of them has an actuary as its hero.

Actuarial issues in the novels of Jane Austen

WEB PAGE ARTICLE | Daniel Skwire | January 1, 1997

An analysis of the six novels of Jane Austen from an actuarial perspective.