Katherine Eban

Katherine Eban (born 1966/1967) is an American investigative journalist and author. Her investigative work has focused on public health and homeland security issues. She is a contributor at Fortune magazine and Vanity Fair and writes for a variety of other national magazines.[2][3][4][5]

Katherine Eban
Born
Katherine Eban Finkelstein

1966 or 1967 (age 56–57)[1]
NationalityAmerican
OccupationJournalist
SpouseB. Kenneth Levenson II
Parent(s)Elinor Fuchs
Michael O. Finkelstein

Biography

Eban is the daughter of Elinor (née Fuchs) and Michael O. Finkelstein.[1] Her father is a corporate lawyer and her mother a professor at the Yale School of Drama.[1] She holds degrees from Brown University, University of East Anglia and a MPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She is an Andrew Carnegie fellow.[3]

Eban has written two books. Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters are Contaminating America's Drug Supply was one of the Best Books of 2005 according to Kirkus Reviews. In 2019 Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom was published.[6] She has received grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support her books.[7] Bottle of Lies won the Cornelius Ryan Award from the Overseas Press Club of America.[8]

The 2019 film The Report is partly inspired by her "Rorschach and Awe" article in Vanity Fair.[9][10]

In 2002, she married B. Kenneth Levenson II in a Jewish ceremony at the Angel Orensanz Center in Manhattan.[1]

She is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Bibliography

Books
  • Dangerous doses : how counterfeiters are contaminating America's drug supply. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt. 2005.
  • Bottle of lies : the inside story of the generic drug boom. New York: Ecco. 2019.

Essays and reporting
  • Eban, Katherine (July–August 2021). "Viral inflection". Vanity Fair. Vol. 730. Additional reporting by Lili Pike; research assistance from Stan Friedman. pp. 92–97, 126–131.

References
  1. "WEDDINGS; Katherine Finkelstein, B. Kenneth Levenson II". The New York Times. April 21, 2002. The bride, 35, will be known as Katherine Eban.
  2. "Katherine Eban". TEDMED. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  3. "Katherine Eban Profile". The Rhodes Project. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  4. "Sundance Author Series – Katherine Eban". Sundance Mountain Resort. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  5. Eban, Katherine (April 24, 2020). ""Really Want to Flood NY and NJ": Internal Documents Reveal Team Trump's Chloroquine Master Plan". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  6. "Biography of Katherine Eban for Appearances, Speaking Engagements". www.allamericanspeakers.com. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  7. "Katherine Eban Finkelstein". sloan.org. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  8. "14 The Cornelius Ryan Award 2019". opcofamerica.org. April 22, 2020. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
  9. Eban, Katherine (17 July 2007). "Rorschach and Awe". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  10. Olsen, Mark (2019-01-29). "Sundance drama 'The Report' dramatizes Senate battle over post-9/11 torture". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
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