Tell Me What You're Reading #12 Alexis Coe: Alice + Freda Forever + Alexis on history, research and the writing process
Our guest for The second episode of our season II, Alexis Coe, was introduced to me by my daughter Melanie.
Alexis is a historian, author, host, commenter, and consultant. She is the author of the narrative history book, Alice+Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis, and is a consultant on the movie adaptation of the book. Alexis is also working on her second book, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington, and is a consulting producer on The History Channel, where she is working on a George Washington series with Doris Kearns Goodwin..
Alexis is the in-house-historian at The Wing, where she delivers monthly lectures or panels on women's history and where she hosts The Wing’s No Man’s Land podcast.
One episode of her podcast, titled, Four Women, One Devastating Allegation, discusses four historical figures, Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward (who are Alice and Freda), and Barbara Gittings and Kay Lahusen, who were gay civil rights pioneers and partners for nearly forty-six years.
More on Alexis
What Alexis is Reading . . .
Alice And Freda Forever, by Alexis Coe
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Reviews Kirkus | Oxford American (A Magazine of the South) | Lambda Literary
Leadership in Turbulent Times, Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Reviews The New York Times | The Washington Post | The Boston Globe
Washington: A Life, Ron Chernow
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Reviews The New York Times | The New Yorker | The Telegraph
His Excellency: George Washington, Joseph J. Ellis
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Reviews The New York Times | The New Yorker | Kirkus Review
And More . . .
Four Women, One Devastating Allegation from No Man's Land by The Wing in Podcasts - Podcast
Presidents Are People Too - An Audible podcast
What Howard is Reading . . .
Leadership in Turbulent Times, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Buy on Amazon
Reviews The New York Times | The Washington Post | New York Journal of Books
