- Nina Burleigh
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Nina Burleigh Born Chicago, Illinois Nationality American Occupation Author and journalist; adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University Spouse Erik Freeland Children Two children Parents Robert Burleigh (author) Website www.ninaburleigh.com Nina Burleigh is an American writer and journalist. She is the author of five books, including Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt (2007), about the scholars who accompanied Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798; Unholy Business (2008), about a Biblical archaeological forgery case; and The Fatal Gift of Beauty (2011), about the overturned conviction of American student Amanda Knox, who was tried in Italy in 2009 for the murder of Meredith Kercher.
Burleigh is an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University, a contributing editor to Elle, and an occasional blogger at The Huffington Post. She has also been a staff writer at People magazine in New York.[1] She has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers, including Time magazine,[2] where among other things she served as White House correspondent, and reported from the West Bank, focusing on women's issues, The New York Times,[3] The New Yorker,[4] and The Washington Post, as well as websites such as TomPaine.com, AlterNet and Salon.com.
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Books
- A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Mary Meyer (1998): about Mary Pinchot Meyer
- The Stranger and the Statesman (2003): a biography of James Smithson
- Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt (2007): about Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Selected by The New York Times as an editors' choice[5] and by Delta Kappa Gamma Society International for the 2008 Educator's Award.[6]
- Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land (2008): about James Ossuary. Burleigh has lectured on Unholy Business at the Oriental Institute, Chicago.[7]
- The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox (August 2011)
Comment about Bill Clinton
In a 1998 essay for Mirabella, Burleigh described noticing that, while aboard Air Force One during her time as a White House correspondent for Time magazine, President Bill Clinton found her attractive. That same year, Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post reported her as saying of Clinton: "I'd be happy to give him [oral sex] just to thank him for keeping abortion legal."[8] Referring to the comment in a 2007 piece for The Huffington Post, Burleigh wrote, "I said it (back in 1998, but a good quote has eternal life) because I thought it was high time for someone to tweak the white, middle-aged beltway gang taking Clinton to task for sexual harassment. These men had neither the personal experience nor the credentials to know sexual harassment when they saw it, nor to give a good goddamn about it if they did. The insidious use of sexual harassment laws to bring down a president for his pro-female politics was the context in which I spoke."[9]
Personal life
Burleigh has written about her visits to Iraq, her mother's country of birth, both as a child and later in life as a journalist.[10] Her father is author Robert Burleigh.[11] She is married to Erik Freeland, a photographer. They and their two children live in New York City.[12]
External links
- Official website
- HuffingtonPost.com Blog
- Alternet Articles
- New York Magazine Articles
- New York Observer Articles
References
- ^ Nina Burleigh - Nina Burleigh Official Web Site
- ^ Time Magazine - Article archive
- ^ "Nina Burleigh Search". New York Times. New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=Nina+Burleigh&more=date_all.
- ^ "Whistle-Blower". New Yorker. The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/01/05/090105ta_talk_burleigh.
- ^ "Editor's Choice". The New York Times. 16 December 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/books/review/EdChoice-t.html?pagewanted=print.
- ^ "Delta Gamma". Delta Kappa Gamma Society. http://literati.net/Burleigh/BurleighReviews.htm.
- ^ "Oriental Institute". YouTube Burleigh Lecture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3czjYOng-4k.
- ^ Kurtz, Howard. "A Reporter with Lust in her Hearts", The Washington Post, July 6, 1998.
- ^ Burleigh, Nina. "Watching the Clintons for Love and Money in D.C.", The Huffington Post, December 1, 2007.
- ^ Burleigh, Nina. "Scholars in the Land of the Prophet". Powell's Books. http://www.powells.com/essays/burleigh.html. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
- ^ Robert, Burleigh. "Robert Burleigh". RobertBurleigh.com. http://robertburleigh.com/index.html.
- ^ "About the Author". Literati.net. http://literati.net/Burleigh/index.htm. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
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