Juliet Eilperin -- Biography
A born-and-bred Washingtonian, Juliet Eilperin graduated in 1992 magna cum laude
from Princeton University, where she received a bachelor’s in Politics with a certificate
in Latin American Studies. In March 1998 she joined The Washington Post as its House
of Representatives reporter, where she covered the impeachment of Bill Clinton,
lobbying, legislation, and five national congressional campaigns.
Since April of 2004 she has served as the Post’s national environmental reporter,
reporting on science, policy and politics in areas including climate change, oceans, and
air quality. In pursuit of these stories she has gone scuba diving with sharks in the
Bahamas, trekking on the Arctic tundra with Selma Hayek and Jake Gyllenhaal, and
searching on her hands and knees for rare insects in the caves of Tennessee. She covered
the 2008 presidential race, traveling with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin, while maintaining her environmental beat, and launched the paper’s Post
Carbon blog in December 2009. In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon explosion in
April 2010, Ms. Eilperin wrote several investigative pieces exposing the lack of federal
oversight over offshore drilling.
In the spring of 2006 Rowman & Littlefield published her first book, “Fight Club
Politics: How Partisanship is Poisoning the House of Representatives, which has been
featured on NPR’s “Fresh Air with Terry Gross” and Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show
with Jon Stewart.” Ms. Eilperin has just completed “Demon Fish: Travels Through the
Hidden World of Sharks,” to be published in June 2011 by Pantheon.