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Alexis Coe
OccupationHistorian
Years active2014–present
Notable worksYou Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

Alexis Coe is an American presidential historian, podcast host, exhibition curator and tv commenter. She is a fellow at New America and the author of award-winning Alice and Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis (2014) and the New York Times best-selling You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington (2020).[1][2][3]

Career

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Coe was an oral historian for the Brooklyn Historical Society while in graduate school. She was a research curator in the New York Public Library’s exhibitions department where she co-curated "Find the Past, Know the Future," the most popular exhibition in the Library's history.[4][5][6]

Coe has been published in The New York Times,[7]The Atlantic,[8] Slate,[9] The New Yorker,[10] and The New York Times Magazine.[11]

Coe published Alice and Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis in 2014.[12] In 2016, Coe co-hosted the podcast Presidents Are People Too!.[13] In 2018, she hosted the podcast, No Man's Land, which won a Webby award for Best Series.[14]

In 2020, Coe published You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington, making her the first woman biographer to publish a biography of Washington in over a century. The book became a New York Times best-seller in February 2020 and was widely praised as genre-breaking.[3][6][15][16]

Coe produced and starred in The History Channel's Washington series with Doris Kearns Goodwin.[17]

In 2023, she spoke on CBS News about the historical significance of the March 2023 Indictment of Donald Trump.[18]

Coe is a fellow at New America, a bipartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.

Personal life

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Coe was raised in Los Angeles, California. She moved to New York to go to Columbia and Sarah Lawrence. She has written about her grandparents, who helped raise her. She cared for her grandmother at the end of her life. Coe shared a birthday with her maternal grandfather, who is her daughter's namesake. She has an older brother.

Coe lives outside of New York City. She is divorced. [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]

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  1. ^ Alice and Frida Forever. Kirkus Reviews.
  2. ^ "How historian Alexis Coe handles being the only woman in the room". TODAY. 8 July 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  3. ^ a b Egan, Elisabeth (2020-02-27). "Think You Know George Washington?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  4. ^ Ansley, Laura (2020-10-22). "Expanding the Genre: Alexis Coe Writes an Accessible Washington Biography". Perspectives on History.
  5. ^ Wagner, Tony (2020-02-13). "Alexis Coe didn't realize all of the opportunities a history major brings". Marketplace. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  6. ^ a b Shribman, David. "In 'You Never Forget Your First,' Alexis Coe offers a fresh look at a president without precedent - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  7. ^ Coe, Alexis (2023-02-17). "Opinion | George Washington Would Hate Presidents' Day". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  8. ^ Coe, Alexis (2013-03-04). "How Do Children of Gay Parents Feel About Getting Married?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  9. ^ Coe, Alexis (2022-10-03). "What Being Unpopular Does to a First-Term President". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  10. ^ Coe, Alexis (2017-11-22). "What the Least Fun Founding Father Can Teach Us Now". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  11. ^ Coe, Alexis (2017-02-16). "Letter of Recommendation: Presidential Biographies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  12. ^ "Books to Watch Out For: October". The New Yorker. 2014-10-02. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  13. ^ "A Conversation with Alexis Coe on You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington". lbjpodcast.com. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  14. ^ "NEW Webby Gallery + Index". NEW Webby Gallery + Index. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  15. ^ Andrews, Becca. "To know George Washington is not necessarily to love him. Just ask historian Alexis Coe". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  16. ^ "You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe: 9780735224117 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  17. ^ "This Historian Could Change How You Think About George Washington". NowThis News. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
  18. ^ Trump indictment a first in American politics, 4 April 2023, retrieved 2023-04-23
  19. ^ "I Think About This a Lot: This Photo of a Family Arriving at Ellis Island". 2 July 2018.
  20. ^ Coe, Alexis (March 4, 2014). "Grandma's Proxy". The Hairpin. Archived from the original on May 20, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  21. ^ "Chernow Gonna Chernow". 30 January 2021.
  22. ^ "BIO".
  23. ^ https://starrlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2022-Report-to-the-Community-Final.pdf
  24. ^ "Case 2022-52851 Alexis Coe V. Anthony Lydgate - Trellis: Legal Intelligence + Judicial Analytics".
  25. ^ https://twitter.com/AlexisCoe/status/1657738587880693761
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