Alice Wexler (1942-) received a Ph.D. in history from Indiana University in 1972. She has taught at UC Riverside, the California Institute of Technology, Claremont Graduate School, Occidental College and UCLA. Wexler is the author of two biographies on Emma Goldman: Emma Goldman in America (1984), which tracks Goldman's political career in the United States up to her deportation, and Emma Goldman in Exile (1989), which cover's Goldman's life from 1919 until her death in 1940. Wexler's other books include Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research (1996) and The Woman Who Walked Into the Sea: Huntington's the Making of a Genetic Disease (2008). She has been a Research Scholar at UCLA's Center for the Study of Women since 1994.
From the guide to the Alice Wexler Research Files on Emma Goldman, Bulk, 1912-1940, 1912-1940, late 1970s-1980s, (Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive)
