Natalie Wexler is a lawyer, historian, and writer who spent ten years as an associate editor of The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800, where she first came across the letters that inspired her novel, A More Obedient Wife. Her feature articles, essays, and short stories have appeared in The American Scholar, The Washington Post Magazine, The Gettysburg Review, and other publications. She graduated from Harvard College and received a master’s degree in history from the University of Sussex (England) and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was editor-in-chief of the law review. In 1984-85 she was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her family, and has been an instructor at The Writers’ Center in Bethesda, Md. A More Obedient Wife, which has won two awards, is her first novel. She is currently working on two other novels, one contemporary and one historical.