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In a passage from ‘A Mind Unraveled,’ his memoir about his decades-long experience with epilepsy, Kurt Eichenwald describes a Kafka-esque scene from his college years.
Kurt Eichenwald is the author of A Mind Unraveled. He is also 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. He lives in Dallas with his family.