[close] For more than 20 years, Fran Hawthorne has followed the rise of 401(k) plans, the fall of old-fashioned pensions, and the ins and outs of Wall Street's dance with Washington, as an editor and writer at <em>Fortune, BusinessWeek,</em> and <em>Institutional Investor </em>magazine (where she's now a senior contributing editor). She is the author of three books on health care and investing, including <em>Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat</em> (Wiley, 2005) and <em>The Merck Druggernaut: The Inside Story of a Pharmaceutical Giant</em> (Wiley, 2003). In addition, Hawthorne writes regularly for <em>The New York Times, Newsday, The Scientist, Worth, Crain's New York Business,</em> and many other publications. She was also selected to be a contributor in fiction at the prestigious Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont in 1991. Hawthorne graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Berkeley." [close]