Katherine Eban

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]

Katherine Eban
Born	Katherine Eban Finkelstein 1966 or 1967 (age 58–59)[1]
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Journalist, author
Spouse	B. 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 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

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.