Joyce Wadler

Joyce Wadler
Wadler in 2009
Born	Joyce Judith Wadler (1948-01-02) January 2, 1948 (age 77)
Occupation(s)	Journalist, reporter
Employer	The New York Times

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 ( ISBN   0-553-09213-8) after interviewing Bernard Boursicot, who granted her wide access to information and insight into his affair with Shi Pei Pu. ^{[ citation needed ]}

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] [ failed verification ]} 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 ( ISBN   0671017756; ISBN   978-0-671-01775-0) was originally a two-part cover story for New York Magazine and later expanded into an award-winning^{[ citation needed ]} 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. ^{[ citation needed ]} In 1995, she was diagnosed with "advanced ovarian cancer" and treated. She has been in remission since 2000. ^{[ citation needed ]}

Personal life

She is Jewish. ^[4]

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

1. Wadler, Joyce (April 1992). "My Breast". New York .
2. Is DNA Destiny? Utne Reader . March 1, 1998
3. My Breast by Joyce Wadler on Amazon.com
4. "Joyce Wadler on Her Own Breast Cancer Story -- New York Magazine - Nymag". 15 April 2008.
5. "Joyce Wadler's Biography | Muck Rack".

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