She Quit Wall Street to Pen Comic Novel on Outing Sexist Bosses

Maureen Sherry spent the first half of her adult life climbing rungs in some of Wall Street’s biggest investment banks and the next half among other affluent moms, many married to leaders in finance.

This month she published “Opening Belle,” a novel that comically and bitingly chronicles male antics of those worlds, from a boy snapping a thong in a preschool to the entrenched misogyny of men on the trading floor -- as well as the dynamics of women who surround them. As the title suggests, they’re the characters who are front and center. A movie already is being developed by Warner Bros. and Reese Witherspoon’s production company.