Belle BurdenSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Belle Burden is an author and lawyer, best known for her 2026 memoir, “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage.” She graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, earned a degree cum laude from Harvard University, and received a law degree from New York University. She worked as a corporate attorney and has handled pro bono immigration and juvenile law cases. In 1999, she married Henry Patterson Davis and divorced after roughly 20 years, during which they raised three children. The marriage ended abruptly in March 2020, early in the COVID-19 lockdown, after she learned of his affair. She first wrote about the experience in a 2023 New York Times Modern Love essay (“Was I Married to a Stranger?”). That piece led to the full-length memoir Strangers, which debuted at #1 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list. The book examines the sudden end of her marriage, the emotional and financial fallout, and her process of rebuilding.