ABOUT

Katherine Eban is an award-winning investigative journalist, best-selling author, Vanity Fair special correspondent and Andrew Carnegie fellow. Her articles on pharmaceutical counterfeiting, gun trafficking, coercive interrogations by the CIA and 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 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 numerous awards, including: 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 dog Romeo and pandemic rescue cat Marley.