Eve Fairbanks

Eve Fairbanks writes about change: in cities, countries, landscapes, morals, values, and our ideas of ourselves. Her debut book The Inheritors, about South Africa, won the 2023 PEN/America John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction and was a 2024 finalist for South Africa's top literary prize, the Sunday Times Award. A former political writer for The New Republic and current senior editor at Foreign Affairs, her essays and reportage have been published in The Guardian Long Reads, The New York Times, and The Atlantic, among other outlets. Born in Washington D.C. and raised in Virginia, she’s lived in South Africa for sixteen years.