He wrote the 2013 book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder about the serial killer Charles Cullen, which was a follow-up to his 2007 article for New York magazine about Cullen,[1][2] and the 2018 book The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer about cancer immunotherapy.
Before becoming a journalist and author, he was a medical student and researcher and co-authored papers for scientific journals.
[4] As a journalist, Graeber has written for numerous publications, including Wired, GQ, The New Yorker, Outside, and The New York Times.
[5] The New York Times's Janet Maslin said Graeber "has been drawn to extremes throughout his reporting career", highlighting his Wired article about Kim Dotcom.
Graeber met with the film's writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns and provided access to the materials he used for his book.