Biography
Kurt Eichenwald is an American journalist and author. He was born on 28 June 1961 in New York City. He graduated from Swarthmore College and joined The New York Times in 1986, where he worked for two decades as a senior writer and investigative reporter covering Wall Street and corporate matters.
Eichenwald is the author of several non-fiction books, including The Informant: A True Story (2000). The book was adapted into the 2009 film The Informant!, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon, on which Eichenwald is credited as a producer. He has also written for Newsweek and Vanity Fair.
Eichenwald is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award and a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. He later worked as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a senior writer at Newsweek.
