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BiographyPeter Elkind is an editor at large at Fortune magazine and an award-winning investigative reporter. Elkind is co-author of the national bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, author of The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene Jones and the Texas Baby Murders, and author of the newly published Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and Texas Monthly, and is a former editor of the Dallas Observer. His work for Fortune includes such in-depth pieces as "The trouble with Steve Jobs," about how the CEO of Apple concealed his bout with pancreatic cancer; "The Fall of the House of Grasso," about former NYSE chairman Dick Grasso's $140 million pay package; and "The Incredible Half-Billion-Dollar Azerbaijani Oil Swindle," detailing the story of wheeler-dealer Viktor Kozeny, known as "The Pirate of Prague." The 2005 documentary based on the Enron book was nominated for an Academy Award. The Eliot Spitzer saga is also the topic of a forthcoming documentary by filmmaker Alex Gibney. Elkind collaborated with Gibney on both projects. He has been a guest on numerous radio and television programs, including "The Today Show," Nightline, CNN Newsnight, and The Charlie Rose Show. Elkind graduated from Princeton University in 1980. He lives with his family in Fort Worth, Texas. |
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