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. 

Joyce’s memoir, “My Breast: One Woman’s Cancer Story,” originally a two-part cover story for  New York Magazine, was expanded to a book and translated into a half dozen languages.  The London Sunday Times called it “the first breast cancer comedy –albeit a black comedy.” Kirkus Review found it “completely engrossing and unexpectedly humorous.”

Four years after “My Breast” was published, Joyce was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer and discovered she carried a genetic mutation, which gave her a high risk of breast and ovarian cancers.  Joyce wrote a second cover story for New York Magazine, “Cancer Redux.” Those stories were later released as a book, “Cured, My Ovarian Cancer Story.”

 Joyce also wrote “Liaison,” the true story of the diplomat spy and the Chinese opera star whose affair inspired the play “M. Butterfly.” Author Shana Alexander called the book “Tragic, operatic, touching and hilarious.”

 Joyce is a two-time winner of New York City’s Silurians Press Club Award for Commentary/ Editorial. She also received The National Society of Newspaper Columnists First Place Award for Humor, 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.