Joyce Wadler
Joyce Wadler is a New York City humorist who writes the ‘I Was Misinformed’ column for The New York Times, where she was a staff reporter for 15 years. She was also the New York correspondent for The Washington Post and a contributing editor for New York Magazine and Rolling Stone.
Her best-selling memoir about breast cancer, ‘My Breast’, the first in her 'Plucky Cancer Girl Strikes Back' series, has been translated in several languages and was adapted by Ms. Wadler as a CBS television movie. The London Sunday Times called it the first humor book -- "albeit black humor" -- about cancer. Gloria Steinem called the book, “An irresistible and intimate story of defeating cancer with humor and self-respect.”
"Cured, My Ovarian Cancer Story", originally published as a cover story in New York Magazine, tells the story of Ms. Wadler's later battle against advanced ovarian cancer, as well as her discovery that she carried the BRCA-1 genetic mutation, which puts women at higher risk or breast and ovarian cancer. Like 'My Breast', it is a cancer book which will make you laugh -- and one with a happy ending.
“Death, I now see, may not come when I am 85 and weary, or after I have solved all my problems or met all my deadlines. It will come whenever it damn well pleases; all I can control is the time between. So when I see something I want, I grab it. If the tulips are particularly yellow, I buy them. ”