Alafair Burke Biography
Alafair Burke is a crime novelist, law professor, and legal commentator from the United States. She has written twenty New York Times bestselling crime thrillers.
Alafair Burke Age
She was born Alafair S. Burke on October 1969, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States of America. Burka is 53 years old as of October 2022.
Alafair Burke Education
Burke earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where she wrote her final thesis titled “Emotion’s Effects on Memory: Spatial Narrowing of Attention.” She then attended Stanford Law School in California, where she graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif.
Alafair Burke Family- Parents
Burke was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and raised mostly in Wichita, Kansas, where her mother, Pearl Pai Chu, was a school librarian and her father, James Lee Burke, was an English professor.
Burke Husband- Spouse
She has not gone public with her relationship. However, It is not known whether she is married, engaged, divorced, or single.
Alafair Burke Career
She worked as a judicial clerk for Betty Binns Fletcher of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before becoming a Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney in Portland, where she prosecuted domestic violence cases and served as a police department in-precinct advisor. She is currently a law professor at Hofstra University School of Law. She has served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America, as president of its New York chapter, and as the organization’s first woman of color. She was elected to the American Law Institute in 2017. She is also a member of the Authors Guild Foundation’s board of directors. In 2014, publisher Simon & Schuster announced that Mary Higgins Clark and Burke were collaborating on the Under Suspicion series, featuring an intrepid television journalist who reinvestigates cold cases. In 2017, Burke was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel for her book, The Ex.
Alafair Burke’s Net Worth
Burke has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.
