Quick Facts
Biography
Natalie Wexler is a novelist and historian. She is a graduate of the Bryn Mawr School, Radcliffe College (A.B. 1976, magna cum laude), 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 Associate Justice Byron R. White of the United States Supreme Court. 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'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.
Selected publications
- A More Obedient Wife: A Novel of the Early Supreme Court (2007)
- 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.