Katherine Eban
Katherine Eban is an American investigative journalist and author. Her 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.
Biography
Eban is the daughter of Elinor and Michael O. Finkelstein. Her father is a corporate lawyer and her mother a professor at the Yale School of Drama. She holds degrees from Brown University, University of East Anglia, and an MPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She is an Andrew Carnegie fellow.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, she published Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom. She has received grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support her books. Bottle of Lies won the Cornelius Ryan Award from the Overseas Press Club of America.
The 2019 film The Report is partly inspired by Eban's "Rorschach and Awe" article in Vanity Fair.
In 2002, she married B. Kenneth Levenson II in a Jewish ceremony at the Angel Orensanz Center in Manhattan.