Joyce Wadler
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Joyce Judith Wadler (born January 2, 1948) is a journalist and reporter for The New York Times, as well as a writer and humorist.
Career
Prior to working at the New York Times, she was a reporter and feature writer for the New York Post, New York correspondent for The Washington Post and a contributing editor for New York Magazine and Rolling Stone. She authored Liaison: The True Story of the M. Butterfly Affair (Template:ISBN) after interviewing Bernard Boursicot, who granted her wide access to information and insight into his affair with Shi Pei Pu. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Cancer
Wadler has been treated for both breast and ovarian cancer. In 1991, Wadler was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a malignant tumor "the size of a robin's egg" removed from her left breast.[1] The eventual diagnosis was "ductal carcinoma with medullary features".[2]Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Due to somewhat early detection and aggressive treatment, Wadler called it "[m]y maybe-not- the-best-but-still-pretty-terrific-whatever-the-hell-it-is cancer".[3]
Her memoir about breast cancer, My Breast: One Woman's Cancer Story (Template:ISBN; Template:ISBN) was originally a two-part cover story for New York Magazine and later expanded into an award-winningScript error: No such module "Unsubst". book and made into a television movie starring Meredith Baxter, which won the American Women in Radio and Television Excellence in Programming Award in 1995. Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In 1995, she was diagnosed with "advanced ovarian cancer" and treated. She has been in remission since 2000. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Personal life
As stated in her Muck Rack profile[5] she does not write as much as she used to, but money could still motivate her.
Works
- Books
- My Breast: One Woman’s Cancer Story
- Liaison: The True Story of the M. Butterfly Affair
References
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- ↑ My Breast by Joyce Wadler on Amazon.com
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External links
- "The Public Life of Joyce Wadler", New York Observer
- Index of Wadler's recent reporting for The New York Times
- Joyce Wadler's blog
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- 1948 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American Jews
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