1 - 5 February 2024 | Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur

Marie Brenner

Marie Brenner is an American author, investigative journalist and writer-at-large for Vanity Fair. She has also written for New York, The New Yorker and the Boston Herald and has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her Vanity Fair article on tobacco insider Jeffrey Wigand, “The Man Who Knew Too Much”, inspired the 1999 movie The Insider, starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Brenner worked as a contributing editor for New York (magazine) from 1980-1984, and covered the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. Brenner’s 2002 Vanity Fair article, “The Enron Wars,” delving into the investigation into the Enron scandals made national news when Senator Peter Fitzgerald used it to question witnesses testifying before a senate committee. In 2009, the Manhattan Theater Club announced that it had commissioned Alfred Uhry to adapt Brenner’s memoir Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found for the stage.

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