Nina Burleigh is working on an e-book about women and the Arab Spring to be published in March 2012. Her latest book, The Fatal Gift of Beauty, about the Amanda Knox case, was a New York Times bestseller. Recently she has covered young American conservatives, Israeli archaeological forgers, Italian gelato-makers, Arab feminists, a Mediterranean fishing-town mayor murdered over slow-food politics, asteroid deflection experts in Bucharest and Chinese immigrants to Italy, for many national publications including TIME. A former staff writer for PEOPLE magazine, Burleigh is a contributing writer for Elle and lives in New York.
Why I’ve Stopped Sending Holiday Photo Cards
We used to go all out. This year, my urge to share has already been well sated.

