Donovan Lamb story is a very unfortunate real-life story of an investigative journalist Jesica Pressler. She was actually in charge of the annual series that is published by New York Magazine of a list of reasons why to love New York. Jesica Pressler issued a profile of a boy named Mohammed Islam who was known as a real-life Donovan because he claimed that he became rich by trading in stocks which he started at the age of 9 with penny stocks.