Author, VIRUS
Nina Burleigh is a national journalist and author of seven books including her latest, VIRUS: Vaccinations, the CDC, and the Hijacking of America's Response to the Pandemic, and the New York Times best-seller The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Italian Trials of Amanda Knox, of which Tim Egan wrote: "Clear-eyed, sweeping, honest and tough .. sets a standard that any of the other chroniclers of this tale have yet to meet. This is what long-form journalism is all about." She most recently covered America under Donald Trump as national politics correspondent at Newsweek. She got her start in journalism covering the Illinois Statehouse in Springfield, has reported from almost every state in the Continental U.S., and has been based in Italy, France and the Middle East. A fellow of the Explorers Club, she has covered stories on six continents. Besides politics, she is interested in the tension between religion and science and her books have covered that in various forms, times and places, including 1830s American politics, among post-revolutionary French scientists in Egypt, Cold War era CIA conspiracy theories, fake Biblical archaeology in Jerusalem today, and the role of witch belief in a modern Italian courtroom. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications including Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Time, New York, The New York Times Magazine, Slate and Bustle. She has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher, Good Morning America, Nightline, The Today Show, 48 Hours, MSNBC, CNN and C-Span, NPR and numerous documentaries, podcasts and radio programs.