{{short description|American author and historian}} {{Use American English|date=August 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata = ALL | dateformat = mdy | birth_place = New York, New York | occupation = College professor }}
'''Alice Ruth Wexler''' (born May 31, 1942) is an American author and historian. She has written two biographies on the anarchist Emma Goldman.<!-- see Works section below for sources --> Wexler has also written about Huntington's disease, which has affected her family and which her younger sister, Nancy Wexler, researches.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Grady |first1=Denise |title=Haunted by a Gene |work=The New York Times |date=2020-03-10 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/health/huntingtons-disease-wexler.html |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
== Early life and career ==
Alice Ruth Wexler was born May 31, 1942, in New York, New York,<ref name=encyclopedia.com>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Wexler, Alice (Ruth) |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia.com |date=2005 |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/wexler-alice-ruth |access-date=2021-08-22 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Martin |first1=Douglas |title=Milton Wexler, Groundbreaker on Huntington's, Dies at 98 |work=The New York Times |date=2007-03-24 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/obituaries/24wexler.html |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> <!-- == Career == --> 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.{{r|encyclopedia.com}}
== Works ==
* ''Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life'' (1984) * ''Emma Goldman in Exile'' (1989) * ''Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research'' (1995)<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Woodward |first1=Kathleen |title=Fates Worse than Death? |journal=The Women's Review of Books |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=11–12 |date=1995 |doi=10.2307/4022204 |issn=0738-1433 |jstor=4022204 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> * ''The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease'' (2008)<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Uhlmann |first1=Wendy R. |title=The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease |journal=Human Genetics |volume=86 |pages=830–831 |date=2010-06-11 |issue=6 |url=https://www.academia.edu/1218078 |language=en |doi=10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.05.007 |df=mdy-all |pmc=3032076 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rogers |first1=Naomi |title=Review of The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=96 |issue=4 |pages=1253–1254 |date=2010 |doi=10.1093/jahist/96.4.1253a |issn=0021-8723 |jstor=40661964 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
== References ==
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== External links ==
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