Claire Berlinski (born 1968) is an American journalist and author. Born and raised in

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and other parts of the United States, including

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and

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, she read Modern History at

Balliol College Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the ...

, Oxford where she earned a doctorate in

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. She has lived in

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, where she worked for ''

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''; Laos, where she worked briefly for the

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; and

Istanbul ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 34000 to 34990 , area_code = +90 212 (European side) +90 216 (Asian side) , registration_plate = 34 , blank_name_sec2 = GeoTLD , blank_i ...

, where she worked as a freelance journalist. She now lives in

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Career

Berlinski has written two spy novels, a work on Europe's importance to American interests, and an admiring but critical biography of

Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime ...

. Her journalism has been published in ''

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'' and ''

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'' and many other publications.

Personal life

She is the daughter of author and academic David Berlinski and cellist Toby Saks, the granddaughter of composer and musicologist Herman Berlinski, and the sister of writer Mischa Berlinski. She had been living in Istanbul until the height of

Gezi Park protests A wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Turkey began on 28 May 2013, initially to contest the urban development plan for Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park. The protests were sparked by outrage at the violent eviction of a sit-in at the park prote ...

when she decided to move to Paris to be closer to her father after the death of her mother in 2013.

Books

;Nonfiction * ''Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too'' (2006) * '' There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters'' (2008) ;Fiction * ''Alias Selena Keller'', co-authored with Steven Barris (2001) * ''Loose Lips'' (2003) * ''Lion Eyes'' (2007)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Berlinski, Claire 1968 births Living people 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford American expatriates in Turkey American people of German-Jewish descent American women journalists American women novelists Jewish American novelists Jewish women writers Novelists from California 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American journalists Journalists from California 21st-century American Jews Berlinski family