Alice Ruth Wexler (born 1942) is an American author and historian. She has written two biographies on the anarchist
Emma Goldman. Wexler has also written about
Huntington's disease, which has affected her family and which her younger sister,
Nancy Wexler, researches.[1]
Early life and career
Alice Ruth Wexler was born May 31, 1942, in
New York, New York,[2] 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.[3]
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.[2]