Kurt Eichenwald
An image from The Informant!, one of the productions that also features Kurt Eichenwald.
Kurt Eichenwald

Kurt Eichenwald

June 28, 1961 — New York City, New York

Kurt Eichenwald is the New York Times bestselling author of four previous nonfiction books. His second, The Informant, was made into a movie starring Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh. In addition to his distinguished work as a senior writer at Newsweek and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, Eichenwald spent two decades as a senior writer at The New York Times, where he was a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also a two-time winner of the George Polk Award, as well as the winner of the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism and an Emmy Award nominee.

The Informant!

The Informant!

2009