Nina D. Burleigh is an American writer and journalist. She is the author of five books, including Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt, about the scholars who accompanied Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798; Unholy Business, chronicling a Biblical archaeological forgery case and the Jerusalem relic trade; and The Fatal Gift of Beauty, on the overturned conviction of American student Amanda Knox, who was tried in Italy in 2009 for the murder of Meredith Kercher. She also writes a column for The New York Observer called "The Bombshell". 

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