Alice Wexler

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Alice Wexler
Born(1942-05-31)May 31, 1942
New York, New York
EducationDoctor of Philosophy Edit this on Wikidata
Alma mater
OccupationCollege professor
Awards

Alice Ruth Wexler (born 1942) is an American author and historian. She has written two biographies on the anarchist Emma Goldman. Wexler has also written about Huntington's disease, which has affected her family and which her younger sister, Nancy Wexler, researches.[1]

Early life and career[]

Alice Ruth Wexler was born May 31, 1942, in New York, New York,[2] to Leonore (Sabin) and Milton. Though her parents divorced in 1962, her mother's diagnosis of Huntington's disease late in the 1960s became a central research focus of the family.[3] Wexler taught at Sonoma State University from 1972 to 1982. She served as a visiting professor of history at multiple American universities and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999.[2]

Works[]

  • Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life (1984)
  • Emma Goldman in Exile (1989)
  • Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research (1995)[4]
  • The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease (2008)[5][6]

References[]

  1. ^ Grady, Denise (March 10, 2020). "Haunted by a Gene". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  2. ^ a b "Wexler, Alice (Ruth)". Encyclopedia.com. 2005. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
  3. ^ Martin, Douglas (March 24, 2007). "Milton Wexler, Groundbreaker on Huntington's, Dies at 98". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  4. ^ Woodward, Kathleen (1995). "Fates Worse than Death?". The Women's Review of Books. 13 (1): 11–12. doi:10.2307/4022204. ISSN 0738-1433. JSTOR 4022204.
  5. ^ Uhlmann, Wendy R. (June 11, 2010). "The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease". Human Genetics. 86: 830–831. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.05.007. PMC 3032076.
  6. ^ Rogers, Naomi (2010). "Review of The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease". The Journal of American History. 96 (4): 1253–1254. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 40661964.


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