Alexis Coe
Alexis Coe is an American presidential historian, podcast host, and author of Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis (2014) and the New York Times best-selling You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington (2020). In December 2020, she launched the newsletter Study Marry Kill.[1][2][3][4]
Career[]
Coe was an oral historian for the Brooklyn Historical Society while in graduate school. Upon graduation, she became a research curator in the New York Public Library’s exhibitions department.[2]
Coe published Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis in 2014. The book told the story of Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward.[2] Coe began co-hosting the podcast Presidents Are People Too! in 2016.[2]
In 2020, Coe published You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington making her the first female biographer to publish a biography of Washington in over a century.[2] The book became a New York Times best-seller in February 2020.[4][5]
References[]
- ^ "Bio". Alexis Coe. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Expanding the Genre | Perspectives on History | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ "How historian Alexis Coe handles being the only woman in the room". TODAY.com. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Egan, Elisabeth (2020-02-27). "Think You Know George Washington?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
- ^ "You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe: 9780735224117 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
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