Career
Prior to working at the New York Times, she was a reporter and feature writer for the New York Post, New York correspondent for The Washington Post and a contributing editor for New York Magazine and Rolling Stone. She authored () after interviewing Bernard Boursicot, who granted her wide access to information and insight into his affair with Shi Pei Pu. Wadler has been treated for both breast and ovarian cancer.
In 1991, Wadler was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a malignant tumor "the size of a robin"s egg" removed from her left breast.
The eventual diagnosis was "ductal carcinoma with medullary features". Due to somewhat early detection and aggressive treatment, Wadler called it "y maybe-notthe-best-but-still-pretty-terrific-whatever-the-hell-it-is cancer".
In 1995, she was diagnosed with "advanced ovarian cancer" and treated. She has been in remission since 2000.
