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A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir Audiobook, by Edie Windsor Play Audiobook Sample

A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir Audiobook

A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir Audiobook, by Edie Windsor Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Joshua Lyon, Donna Postel Publisher: Brilliance Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781799750888

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

28

Longest Chapter Length:

39:23 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

01:46 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

21:44 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

A lively, intimate memoir from an icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism which opened the door for marriage equality.

"Mesmerizing." —Rosie O’Donnell

Edie Windsor became internationally famous when she sued the US government, seeking federal recognition for her marriage to Thea Spyer, her partner of more than four decades. The Supreme Court ruled in Edie’s favor, a landmark victory that set the stage for full marriage equality in the US. Beloved by the LGBTQ community, Edie embraced her new role as an icon; she had already been living an extraordinary and groundbreaking life for decades.

In this memoir, which she began before passing away in 2017 and completed by her co-writer, Edie recounts her childhood in Philadelphia, her realization that she was a lesbian, and her active social life in Greenwich Village's electrifying underground gay scene during the 1950s. Edie was also one of a select group of trailblazing women in computing, working her way up the ladder at IBM and achieving their highest technical ranking while developing software. In the early 1960s Edie met Thea, an expat from a Dutch Jewish family that fled the Nazis, and a widely respected clinical psychologist. Their partnership lasted forty-four years, until Thea died in 2009. Edie found love again, marrying Judith Kasen-Windsor in 2016.

A Wild and Precious Life is remarkable portrait of an iconic woman, gay life in New York in the second half of the twentieth century, and the rise of LGBT activism.

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About Edie Windsor

Edie Windsor (1929–2017) was an American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM. She was the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court of the United States case United States v. Windsor, considered a landmark legal victory for the same-sex marriage movement in the United States. In 2013 she was the runner-up, to Pope Francis, for Time magazine’s Person of the Year.

About Joshua Lyon

Donna Postel, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is absolutely passionate about audiobooks and has narrated close to fifty titles across multiple genres, from memoir and biography to literary fiction, romance, mystery, and suspense. She uses her innate curiosity, talent, and decades of experience on stage and in the recording studio to bring books to life. When she’s not in the studio, she can be found down at the barn cleaning up after and occasionally riding horses.