12 Facts About Margot Adler

Margot Susanna Adler was an American author, journalist, lecturer, Wiccan priestess, and New York correspondent for National Public Radio.

Margot Adler's grandfather, Alfred Adler, was a noted Austrian Jewish psychotherapist, collaborator with Sigmund Freud and the founder of the school of individual psychology.

Margot Adler received a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York in 1970.

Margot Adler was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1982.

Margot Adler joined NPR in 1979 as a general assignment reporter, after spending a year as an NPR freelance reporter covering New York City, and subsequently worked on a great many pieces dealing with subjects as diverse as the death penalty, the right to die movement, the response to the war in Kosovo, computer gaming, the drug ecstasy, geek culture, children and technology and Pokemon.

Margot Adler was the host of Justice Talking up until the show ceased production on July 3,2008.

Margot Adler was a regular voice on Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

Margot Adler was co-producer of an award-winning radio drama, War Day.

Margot Adler wrote Drawing Down the Moon, a 1979 book about Neopaganism which was revised in 2006.

Margot Adler was a Wiccan priestess, an elder in the Covenant of the Goddess, and she participated in the Unitarian Universalist faith community.

In early 2011, Margot Adler was diagnosed with endometrial cancer, which metastasized over the following three years.

Margot Adler was cared for in her final months by her son.