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Nina Burleigh
Nina D. Burleigh (born 1959 or 1960)〔http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/25/style/weddings-vows-nina-burleigh-and-erik-freeland.html〕 is an American writer and journalist.〔"Nina Burleigh." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 2012. ''Biography In Context''. Web. 26 Feb. 2013.〕 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), chronicling a Biblical archaeological forgery case and the Jerusalem relic trade. Her investigative journalism includes ''The Fatal Gift of Beauty'' (2011), on the wrongful imprisonment of American student Amanda Knox. An adjunct professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Burliegh is strongly sympathetic to secular liberalism, and known for her interest in issues of women's rights. She writes a column for ''The New York Observer'' called "The Bombshell".
==Early life==
Her father is author Robert Burleigh, both her parents were University of Chicago professors. Burleigh's family moved to the Haight-Ashbury area of San Francisco when she was seven. After a few months in San Francisco, they moved to Baghdad to live with Burleigh's maternal grandmother. Six months later the family moved to an Amish area of Michigan.〔 They always celebrated Christmas with Santa and a tree, Burleigh stated that her family had "rejected institutional religion" by the time she grew up in the 1970s. "No baptism, no family Bible recording the births, deaths and marriages. My grandfather actively despised churches."
Her first publication was for a library in Elgin, Illinois, when she was in sixth grade.
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