Katherine Eban

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Katherine Eban
Born
Katherine Eban Finkelstein

1966or1967(age 56–57) [1]
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Journalist, author
SpouseB. Kenneth Levenson II
Parent(s)Elinor Fuchs
Michael O. Finkelstein

Katherine Eban (born 1966/1967) 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. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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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 an 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, she published Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom. [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 Eban's "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]

Bibliography

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Essays and reporting

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Weddings: Katherine Finkelstein, B. Kenneth Levenson II". The New York Times . April 21, 2002. The bride, 35, will be known as Katherine Eban.
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