Natalie Wexler


Natalie L. Wexler is an education journalist, novelist, and historian. She is a graduate of the Bryn Mawr School, and Radcliffe College, where she wrote for the Harvard Crimson. She also has degrees from the University of Sussex, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, 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. She later served as an associate editor of the eight-volume series The Documentary History of the Supreme Court, 1789-1800, 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. She has written op-eds on education for the New York Times and the Washington Post, among other publications, and she has blogged about education for Greater Greater Washington and on her own blog, DC Eduphile.
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. 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.

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