Scott Eden is an investigative reporter whose work has focused on crime, corruption, injustice, business, science, technology, and the dark side of sports.

He’s the author of the critically acclaimed A Killing in Cannabis: A True Story of Love, Murder, and California Weed (Spiegel & Grau, February 2026), hailed by the New York Times as “an exhilarating, deeply reported true-crime murder mystery and love story that moves like a Netflix thriller,” and by Publishers Weekly as “top-shelf suspense . . . True crime doesn’t come much better than this.”

Eden has written for ESPN The Magazine, GQ, Wired, Rolling Stone, The Atavist, The Believer and many other publications, and his stories have been anthologized in Best American Sports Writing and in The Believer's best-of collection, Read Hard (McSweeney's, 2009).

• His story "No One Walks Off the Island," about the smuggling of baseball players out of Cuba, was a finalist for the 2015 National Magazine Award in reporting.

• His story "The Prosecution of Thabo Sefolosha," about an explosive incident of NYPD police brutality, won a 2017 New York Press Club Award, as well as a 2017 National Association of Black Journalists award for investigative reporting.

• His reexamination of the biggest match-fixing scandal in modern American sports, "The Fix Was in the Whistle," was a finalist for the 2020 Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sports Writing.

Eden’s first book, Touchdown Jesus (Simon & Schuster, 2005), is a work of narrative nonfiction that examines college football fanaticism through the lens of Notre Dame.