Claire Berlinski
Claire Berlinski (born 1968) is an American journalist and author. Born and raised in California and other parts of the United States, including New York City and Seattle, she read Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford where she earned a doctorate in International Relations. She has lived in Bangkok, where she worked for "Asia Times"; Laos, where she worked briefly for the United Nations Development Program; and Istanbul, where she worked as a freelance journalist. She now lives in Paris. 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. Her journalism has been published in "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post" 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 when she decided to move to Paris to be closer to her father after the death of her mother in 2013.