Katherine Eban (born 1966/1967) is an American investigative journalist and author. Her work has focused on public health and

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issues. She is a contributor at ''

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'' and '' Vanity Fair'' and writes for a variety of other national magazines.

Biography

Eban is the daughter of Elinor (née Fuchs) and Michael O. Finkelstein. Her father is a corporate lawyer and her mother a professor at the

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. She holds degrees from

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, and an

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in English Literature from the

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, where she was a

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. She is an

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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 ''

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''. In 2019, she published ''Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom''. She has received grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support her books. ''Bottle of Lies'' won the Cornelius Ryan Award from the

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. The 2019 film '' The Report'' is partly inspired by Eban's "Rorschach and Awe" article in '' Vanity Fair''. In 2002, she married B. Kenneth Levenson II in a

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ceremony at the Angel Orensanz Center in Manhattan.

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Essays and reporting

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