Joyce Judith Wadler (born January 2, 1948) is a journalist and reporter for The New York Times, as well as a writer and humorist.

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Joyce Wadler
Wadler in 2009
Born	Joyce Judith Wadler (1948-01-02) January 2, 1948 (age 76)
Occupation(s)	Journalist, reporter
Employer	The New York Times

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Prior to working at the New York Times, she was a reporter and feature writer for the New York Post, New York correspondent for The Washington Post and a contributing editor for New York Magazine and Rolling Stone. She authored Liaison: The True Story of the M. Butterfly Affair (ISBN 0-553-09213-8) after interviewing Bernard Boursicot, who granted her wide access to information and insight into his affair with Shi Pei Pu. ^{[citation needed]}

Wadler has been treated for both breast and ovarian cancer. In 1991, Wadler was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a malignant tumor "the size of a robin's egg" removed from her left breast.^[1] The eventual diagnosis was "ductal carcinoma with medullary features".^{[2][failed verification]} Due to somewhat early detection and aggressive treatment, Wadler called it "[m]y maybe-not- the-best-but-still-pretty-terrific-whatever-the-hell-it-is cancer".^[3]

Her memoir about breast cancer, My Breast: One Woman's Cancer Story (ISBN 0671017756; ISBN 978-0-671-01775-0) was originally a two-part cover story for New York Magazine and later expanded into an award-winning^{[citation needed]} book and made into a television movie starring Meredith Baxter, which won the American Women in Radio and Television Excellence in Programming Award in 1995. ^{[citation needed]} In 1995, she was diagnosed with "advanced ovarian cancer" and treated. She has been in remission since 2000. ^{[citation needed]}

She is Jewish.^[4]

As stated in her Muck Rack profile^[5] she does not write as much as she used to, but money could still motivate her.

Books

• My Breast: One Woman’s Cancer Story
• Liaison: The True Story of the M. Butterfly Affair