Kurt Eichenwald
| Kurt Eichenwald | |
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Eichenwald at the 2009 Texas Book Festival
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| Born | Kurt Alexander Eichenwald June 28, 1961 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College |
| Notable works | The Informant, Conspiracy of Fools |
| Notable awards |
George Polk Award Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism |
| Spouse | Theresa Pearse |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | |
| http://kurteichenwald.com/ | |
Kurt Alexander Eichenwald (born June 28, 1961) is an American journalist who serves as a senior writer with Newsweek, a contributing editor with Vanity Fair and a New York Times bestselling author of four books, one of which, The Informant (2000), was made into a motion picture in 2009. He was formerly a writer and investigative reporter with The New York Times and later with Condé Nast's business magazine, Portfolio. Eichenwald had been employed by The New York Times since 1986 and primarily covered Wall Street and corporate topics such as insider trading, accounting scandals, and takeovers, but also wrote about a range of issues including terrorism, the Bill Clinton pardon controversy, Federal health care policy, and sexual predators on the Internet.
Eichenwald was born in 1961. He has stated that he is "Episcopalian with a Jewish father". He graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas and Swarthmore College. His extracurricular activities during his time at Swarthmore included being a founding member of Sixteen Feet, an a cappella vocal octet.
During his first months of college, Eichenwald sustained a concussion, which was soon followed by noticeable epileptic seizures. Diagnosed with epilepsy in November of his freshman year, he continued to attend school despite repeated grand mal seizures.
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