Joyce Wadler

Joyce Wadler is an award-winning New York City humorist and journalist who created and wrote the “I Was Misinformed” humor column for The New York Times, where she was a reporter for 15 years. She now writes a humor column on Substack.

Joyce was the New York correspondent for “The Washington Post,” a contributing editor for “New York Magazine” and “Rolling Stone”, and a staff reporter at New York City’s three major newspapers. Her books include “My Breast,” her memoir about breast cancer, which she later adapted as a CBS television movie, “Cured, My Ovarian Cancer Story,” and “Liaison,” the true story of the diplomat spy and the Chinese opera star whose affair inspired the play, “M. Butterfly.”

Joyce’s many awards include The National Society of Newspaper Columnists First Place Award for Humor, the Society of the Silurians Award for Commentary/ Editorial, The New York Press Club Award for Humor, The New York Newspaper Publishers Association Award for column writing, and Columbia University's prestigious Mike Berger Award for Feature Writing.

Joyce loves sports cars and lives in Greenwich Village, where she pays much too much for her garage.