| Katherine Eban | |
| Birth Name: | Katherine Eban Finkelstein |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Journalist, author |
| Spouse: | B. Kenneth Levenson II |
| Parents: | 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.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Eban is the daughter of Elinor (née Fuchs) and Michael O. Finkelstein.[5] Her father is a corporate lawyer and her mother a professor at the Yale School of Drama.[5] 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.[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.[5]