In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. But the only suspect in her murder was acquitted, and today her life and death are still a source of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised book, the first to examine this haunting story.
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Nina Burleigh is an award-winning journalist and the author of a number of books, including the New York Times bestseller The Fatal Gift of Beauty and Mirage: Napoleon’s Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and won the Society of Women Educators’ Award. Burleigh has been a staff writer at Time and People and currently covers national politics at Newsweek. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Huffington Post as well as in Time, the New Yorker, Elle, and many other journals. She has resided in France, Italy, and the Middle East and now lives in New York.
Siiri Scott is the head of acting and directing in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, where she coordinates classes, directs and prepares actors for graduate training and professional careers. She received her MFA in Acting from the Theatre School at DePaul University and has directed, performed and taught in regional theaters in Chicago, Milwaukee, Los Angeles and Seattle.