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Natalie Wexler
CitizenshipUSA
Alma materBryn Mawr School
Radcliffe College (A.B.)
University of Sussex (M.A.)
University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D.)
OccupationWriter
Known forLiteracy advocate, legal historian
SpouseJames Feldman

Natalie L. Wexler is an education journalist, novelist, and historian. She is a graduate of the Bryn Mawr School, and Radcliffe College (A.B. 1976, magna cum laude), where she wrote for the Harvard Crimson.[1][2] She also has degrees from the University of Sussex (M.A. 1977), and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D. 1983), where she served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. After graduating law school, she worked as a law clerk for Judge Alvin Benjamin Rubin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and then for Associate Justice Byron R. White of the United States Supreme Court. Following her clerkships, she practiced law with Bredhoff & Kaiser in Washington, D.C.[3] She later served as an associate editor of the eight-volume series The Documentary History of the Supreme Court, 1789-1800,[4] and her articles and essays have appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, The American Scholar, and The Gettysburg Review, among other places.

Wexler is the co-author, with Judith C. Hochman, of The Writing Revolution: Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades (2017).[5] She has written op-eds on education for the New York Times[6] and the Washington Post,[7] among other publications, and she has blogged about education for Greater Greater Washington[8] and on her own blog, DC Eduphile.[9]

Wexler's first novel, A More Obedient Wife, is based on the lives and letters of two early Supreme Court justices and their wives. Her second novel, The Mother Daughter Show, is a satire set at an elite Washington, DC private school, where the mothers of graduating senior girls write and perform an annual musical revue.[10] Wexler's third novel, The Observer, is based on the experiences of a woman who lived in early 19th-century Baltimore and was the first American woman to edit a magazine.

In 1986, she married James Feldman, an attorney who was a Supreme Court clerk for Justice William J. Brennan.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Wexler, Natalie (January 22, 1975). "Hasty Pudding Honors Harper, Beatty". Harvard Crimson. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  2. ^ Wexler, Natalie (March 27, 1975). "Captain of Two 'Cliffe Teams Talks About Women, Athletics". Harvard Crimson. Retrieved June 10, 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Natalie Wexler Wed to James Feldman". New York Times. September 15, 1986. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  4. ^ Greenhouse, Linda (December 30, 2006). "After 30 Years, Supreme Court History Project Turns a Final Page". New York Times. Retrieved June 10, 2017.
  5. ^ Hochman, Judith C.; Wexler, Natalie (2017). The Writing Revolution: A Guide To Advancing Thinking Through Writing In All Subjects and Grades. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass (Wiley). ISBN 1119364914.
  6. ^ Wexler, Natalie (August 28, 2015). "How Common Core Can Help in the Battle of Skills vs. Knowledge". New York Times. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  7. ^ Wexler, Natalie (September 24, 2015). "Why Americans Can't Write". Washington Post. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  8. ^ "Blog of Natalie Wexler". Greater Greater Washington. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  9. ^ "Blog of Natalie Wexler". DC Eduphile. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  10. ^ D'Arcy, Janice (21 November 2011). "Sidwell Friends parents fictionalized in 'The Mother Daughter Show'". Washington Post. Retrieved 25 January 2012.

Selected publications

  • A More Obedient Wife: A Novel of the Early Supreme Court (2007), ISBN 0615135161
  • In The Beginning: The First Three Chief Justices, 154 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1373 (2006)
  • The Case For Love, 75 Am. Scholar 80 (2006)
  • The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800 (2003)
  • "What Manner of Woman Our Female Editor May Be": Eliza Crawford Anderson and the Baltimore Observer, 1806-1807, 105 Maryland Historical Magazine 100 (Summer 2010)

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