Joyce Wadler
Joyce Wadler is an award-winning New York City author and journalist who wrote the ‘I Was Misinformed’ humor column for The New York Times for several years and is now on Substack.
Joyce’s darkly funny memoir about breast cancer, My Breast, published by Addison-Wesley, began as a two-part cover story for New York Magazine and has been translated into several languages. The London Sunday Times called My Breast the first humor book — "albeit black humor" — about breast cancer. Joyce adapted My Breast as a CBS television movie.
Joyce is also the author of Liaison, the story of the French civil servant and the Chinese opera singer who inspired the play ‘M. Butterfly’. The book, which was published by Bantam, was excerpted in The New York Times Magazine. The opera singer sued to prevent publication in France.
Joyce was a feature writer at The New York Times for 15 years, the first woman to serve as New York Correspondent for The Washington Post, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and New York Magazine, a reporter at Dorothy Schiff’s New York Post and The New York Daily News Magazine, and a staff writer at People Magazine.
Joyce’s awards include The National Society of Newspaper Columnists First Place Award for Humor; the Silurians Press Club Award for Commentary/ Editorial; The New York Press Club Award for Humor; Columbia University’s Mike Berger Award for feature writing; the Deadline Club Award for Best Feature Reporting in Magazines and The New York Newspaper Publishers Association Award for column writing.