American journalist, memoirist and reporter
Joyce Wadler
Wadler in 2009
Born Joyce Judith Wadler
(1948-01-02 ) January 2, 1948 (age 76) 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
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