Natalie Wexler

Who is Natalie Wexler?

Natalie Wexler is a novelist and historian. She is a graduate of the Bryn Mawr School, Radcliffe College, 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 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.