Alice Wexler Explained

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Alice Wexler
Birth Date:	31 May 1942
Birth Place:	New York, New York
Occupation:	College professor

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.

Works

• (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]}

Notes and References

1. News: Grady . Denise . Haunted by a Gene . . 2020-03-10 . en-US . 0362-4331 . mdy-all .
2. Encyclopedia: Wexler, Alice (Ruth) . Encyclopedia.com . 2005 . 2021-08-22 . mdy-all .
3. News: Martin . Douglas . Milton Wexler, Groundbreaker on Huntington's, Dies at 98 . . 2007-03-24 . en-US . 0362-4331 . mdy-all .
4. Woodward . Kathleen . Fates Worse than Death? . The Women's Review of Books . 13 . 1 . 11–12 . 1995 . 10.2307/4022204 . 0738-1433 . 4022204 . mdy-all .
5. Uhlmann . Wendy R. . The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease . Human Genetics . 86 . 830–831 . 2010-06-11 . 6 . en . 10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.05.007 . mdy-all . 3032076 .
6. Rogers . Naomi . Review of The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease . . 96 . 4 . 1253–1254 . 2010 . 10.1093/jahist/96.4.1253a . 0021-8723 . 40661964 . mdy-all .