Nina Burleigh

Nina D. Burleigh is an American writer and investigative journalist who writes books, articles, essays and reviews. Burleigh is strongly sympathetic to secular liberalism, and is known for her interest in issues of women's rights. 
Early life.
Her father is author Robert Burleigh. 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."
Burleigh earned a bachelor's degree in English from MacMurray College, a master's in English from the University of Chicago and a master's degree in Public Affairs Reporting from University of Illinois at Springfield (then Sangamon State University) in 1984.
Her first publication was for a library in Elgin, Illinois, when she was in sixth grade.
Career.
From January 2015 to January 2020 Burleigh was the National Politics Correspondent for "Newsweek". "In college I thought I might go into fiction writing, but a professor of mine…suggested I could get paid as a journalism intern at the Illinois Statehouse, through a program called the Public Affairs Reporting Program. I got an internship at the Associated Press, and learned a lot about government and writing journalism there”. Burleigh covered the White House for "Time" in the 1990s.
In the 2000s, Burleigh was a staff writer at "People" magazine, covering human interest stories wrote "The Bombshell" column for the New York Observer, and was a contributing editor to "Elle". She has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers, including "Time" magazine, "The New York Times", "The New Yorker", "The Washington Post", "Rolling Stone", and "The Guardian" and websites such as "Slate" magazine, TomPaine.com, AlterNet, Powell's Salon.com, and GEN/Medium. She is an occasional blogger at "The Huffington Post." She was an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University, and a guest lecturer at the University of Agder.
Middle East.
Burleigh worked in the Middle East for many years, including covering the politics of the Israeli settlements for Time Magazine, the emerging effect of Islamists on women in the wake of the Arab Spring for "Slate" and "Time", and the politics and science of biblical archaeology in Israel for the book "Unholy Business" and for the "Los Angeles Times".
Burleigh spent several years working on a book about biblical archaeology and forgery in Israel. 
Amanda Knox case and Italy.
In June 2009, Burleigh and her family moved to the Italian city of Perugia, where Amanda Knox was being tried on a murder charge, to write a book. Burleigh initially intended the story to be an exploration of young women's experiences and media portrayal in the modern world.
Melania Trump.
In January 2019, the London "Daily Telegraph" was forced to apologize and pay "substantial damages" for publishing an article written by Burleigh titled “The Mystery of Melania” that the Telegraph admitted contained numerous fallacies. "Trump often refers to opportunists out to advance themselves by disparaging her name and image," Stephanie Grisham, Trump's communications director, said in a statement to CNN. She will not sit by as people and media outlets make up lies and false assertions in a race for ratings or to sell tabloid headlines." Burleigh, however, stood by the article, an excerpt from her book "The Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump’s Women". “ On January 30, 2019 Burleigh's lawyers threatened the Telegraph parent company TMG with a lawsuit: 
Personal life.
In 1999, she married Erik Freeland, a freelance photojournalist. The couple and their two children live in New York City. 