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"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil meets Camelot."--Washington Post Book World 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 de ella, 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 de ella was acquitted, and today her life and death de ella are still a source of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised book de ella, the first to examine this haunting story. Praise for A Very Private Woman "Power is so utterly fascinating. Sometimes it s used for evil purposes, like the kind of power that has silenced the telling of Mary Pinchot Meyer s mysterious murder for over three decades. In A Very Private Woman, Nina Burleigh has finally told this tragic tale of a privileged beauty with friends in high places."--Dominick Dunne "A superbly crafted, evocative glimpse of an adventurous spirit whose grisly murder remains a mystery."--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "Proves that every Washington sex scandal is juicy in its own way."--Glamor "Nina Burleigh has dissected Washington s most intriguing murder mystery and produced a captivating biography, a thriller, and an insightful portrait of Georgetown in its golden presidential age."--Christopher Ogden, bestselling author of Life of the Party: The Life of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman "Provocative, erudite . . . pure Georgetown noir."--New York Observer "A rich array of real-life characters."--New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Nina Burleigh s articles have appeared in Time, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and New York Magazine. She lives in New York.