Biography[edit]

Pogrebin is the daughter of the writer Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Bert Pogrebin, a labor lawyer.^[1] She is the identical twin sister of Abigail Pogrebin, also a writer. She is a graduate of Yale University.


At the Times, Pogrebin previously covered the media for the business desk and city news for the metro desk. She was also previously an associate producer for Peter Jennings' documentary unit at ABC News, where she covered stories on subjects such as Bosnia and Haiti.^[2] Before that, she was a staff reporter for the New York Observer, covering a range of subjects including city government, law and the restaurant business.^[2] Pogrebin has occasionally written freelance pieces for publications such as Architectural Digest, New York, Vogue, and Departures.^[3]


Pogrebin is also the author, with Kate Kelly, of The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, a book about allegations from Kavanaugh's 2018 Supreme Court nomination hearings which was published in September 2019 from Portfolio Books, a division of Penguin Random House. Before Kavanaugh's confirmation in October, 2018, Pogrebin, who was a classmate of Kavanaugh at Yale, and Kelly, also at the Times, were featured in a podcast about what the judge's classmates were saying concerning his nomination to the Supreme Court.^[4]