Power Failure The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron

MIMI SWARTZis an executive editor atTexas Monthlyand won a National Magazine Award in the public interest category in 1996. She has been a staff writer forThe New YorkerandTalk, and has written for theNew York Times,Vanity Fair, andEsquire. She lives in Houston with her husband and son. SHERRON WATKINSis a former Arthur Andersen accountant who joined Enron in 1993, working for the man who later became CFO, Andy Fastow. She worked in Enron's finance group, its International company, and its Broadband division, before returning to work for Fastow as a vice president in corporate development. As a result of her memos to Ken Lay urging the company to change its accounting practices and restate its earnings, she has become known to the world as the Enron whistleblower. She testified before both the House and the Senate in hearings investigating Enron's business practices in February 2002, and was named along with two others as one ofTimemagazine's 2002 Persons of the Year. From the Hardcover edition.Swartz, Mimi is the author of 'Power Failure The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron', published 2004 under ISBN 9780767913683 and ISBN 076791368X.