Eve Fairbanks is a writer and journalist. During her ICWA fellowship in 2009–2011, she investigated medicine, politics and social change in South Africa. Her first book, The Inheritors, a story of post-apartheid South Africans, won the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Prize in 2023. Her essays and long-form narratives have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Foreign Policy and other publications. She holds a BA from Yale University in political philosophy. She received a Fulbright scholarship to South Africa and writing grants from the Daniel Pearl Investigative Journalism Initiative, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Writing Invisibility Project at the Max Planck Institute. In 2013, she was nominated for a Livingston Award, the top American prize for journalists under 35.