ABOUT

Katherine Eban is an award-winning investigative journalist, Vanity Fair special correspondent, best-selling author and Andrew Carnegie fellow. Her articles on topics from pharmaceutical counterfeiting and gun trafficking to COVID-19’s origins, have won international attention and numerous awards. Her Vanity Fair article “Rorschach and Awe,” which first identified the architects of the CIA’s torture methods used on 9/11 detainees, inspired the 2019 film “The Report.” Her Vanity Fair article on the U.S. bird flu outbreak in dairy cows won the 2024 George Polk award for national reporting. 

Her second book, Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom, is a New York Times bestseller and one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2019. It won the National Association of Science Writers science in society book award; the Overseas Press Club of America’s Cornelius Ryan award for best non-fiction book on international affairs; Investigative Reporters & Editors best book; and the American Society of Journalists and Authors general non-fiction book award.

Based on a decade of reporting, the book reveals endemic fraud and dire conditions in the overseas manufacturing plants where the majority of our low-cost generic medicine is made. Katherine speaks widely about pharmaceutical quality, the impact of globalization, and investigative reporting.

Her first book, Dangerous Doses: a True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters and the Contamination of America’s Drug Supply, was named one of the Best Books of 2005 by Kirkus Reviews and was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. 

Educated at Brown University and Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, Eban lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two daughters, Newfoundland puppy Aslan and rescue cat Seymour.