Nina Burleigh's Biography

Nina Burleigh is a a journalist, best-selling author of seven books, and documentary producer.

Nina was born and educated in the Midwest, has been based in Washington, D.C., New York, and Paris and Italy, traveled and reported extensively in the Middle East and has reported from almost every state in the Continental U.S. 

Her journalism has been published widely, including in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Airmail, Time, New York Magazine, Slate and Bustle, among others. Her books have been reviewed, excerpted and covered in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, New York Magazine, BBC, ABC, MSNBC, Yahoo and other media outlets. Two of her magazine articles were made into dramatic productions and she was an executive producer on a documentary series about Ghislaine Maxwell and a Peacock documentary on Prince Andrew.

She has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline, The Today Show, 48 Hours, MSNBC, CNN and C-Span, on NPR and is a guest on many podcasts.

An adjunct professor at NYU's Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute, Google Scholar says her work has been cited in hundreds of scholarly articles.