Kurt Eichenwald

Kurt Eichenwald
Eichenwald at the 2009 Texas Book Festival
Born	Kurt Alexander Eichenwald (1961-06-28) June 28, 1961 (age 63) New York City, 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
KurtEichenwald.com

Kurt Alexander Eichenwald (born June 28, 1961) is an American journalist and a New York Times bestselling author of five books, one of which, The Informant (2000), was made into a motion picture in 2009. He is senior investigative editor at The Conversation.^[1] Formerly he was a senior writer and investigative reporter with The New York Times, Condé Nast's business magazine, Portfolio, and later was a contributing editor with Vanity Fair and a senior writer with Newsweek. 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.