Bethany McLean
Bethany McLean (born December 12, 1970) is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine known for her work on the Enron scandal. She had been an editor at large and columnist for Fortune magazine.
McLean is best known as the co-author, with Fortune colleague Peter Elkind, of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (ISBN 1591840082), exposing the corrupt business practices of Enron officials. The book was the result of her reporting on Enron for the magazine and she is widely acknowledged as being the first journalist to question Enron's inflated stock price with her article in the March 5, 2001 issue of Fortune magazine entitled, "Is Enron Overpriced?"[1]. The book was later made into an Academy Award nominated documentary. Her column, The Bulldog, appeared regularly in Fortune Magazine. She joined Vanity Fair in 2008.
McLean grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota and received her BA in English and mathematics at Williams College in 1992. After college and prior to joining Fortune she worked as an investment analyst on Wall Street for Goldman Sachs.
McLean has made appearances on the The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, acting as an observer of the trials of Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling.
McLean was also a guest on The Colbert Report on October 13, 2008.
She is writing a book with Joe Nocera on the 2008 financial crisis.
Personal
McLean was married to Chris Wilford [citation needed]; she married Sean Berkowitz, a partner with Latham & Watkins, in May 2008. Berkowitz is the former Director of the Enron Task Force; they met through their mutual connection to that case.
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