Katherine Eban (born 1966/1967) is an American investigative journalist and author. Her investigative work has focused on public health and

homeland security Homeland security is an American national security term for "the national effort to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards where American interests, aspirations, and ways of life can thrive" t ...

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 (née Fuchs) and Michael O. Finkelstein. Her father is a corporate lawyer and her mother a professor at the

Yale School of Drama The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University is a graduate professional school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1924 as the Department of Drama in the School of Fine Arts, the school provides training in e ...

. She holds degrees from Brown University,

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

and a MPhil in English Literature from the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She is an

Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie (, ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans i ...

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 ''Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom'' was published. She has received grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support her books. ''Bottle of Lies'' won the

Cornelius Ryan Award The Cornelius Ryan Award is given for "best nonfiction book on international affairs" by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). To be eligible for this literary award a book must be published "in the US or by a US based company or distribut ...

from the

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. The 2019 film '' The Report'' is partly inspired by her "Rorschach and Awe" article in '' Vanity Fair''. In 2002, she married B. Kenneth Levenson II in a

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

ceremony at the

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in Manhattan. She is based in

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, New York.

Bibliography

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Essays and reporting

References

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