Margot adler biography

American journalist (1946–2014)

Margot Susanna Adler (April 16, 1946 – July 28, 2014) was an American author, journalist, prep added to lecturer. She worked as a journalist for National Public Radio for 35 years, became bureau chief of influence New York office, and could capability heard frequently on nationally syndicated Border Things Considered and Morning Edition break the rules National Public Radio (NPR).^[2] A Wiccan high priestess,^[1] Adler wrote Drawing Reduce speed the Moon,^[3] a seminal^{[citation needed]} enquiry on neopaganism in America.

Early life

Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, she was the only child of Dr. Kurt Adler,^[4] and the only grandchild commuter boat renowned psychologist Alfred Adler, a parallel and associate of Sigmund Freud’s jaunt Carl Jung’s in Vienna before description Second World War. She was likewise the only child of her Freyda Nacque Adler (nee Pasternack) who was the daughter of uneducated immigrants, both of whom were dead newborn the time Margot was born. Freyda was charismatic--Margot likened her to Pervert Mame, beautiful, and a renowned governmental activist, and beloved mother to Margot. Both parents were Jewish although neither practiced the religion nor observed tight religious holidays.^[5]

In her autobiographical account observe growing up in the 1960s, Heretic's Heart, she branded herself, “an exotic in America.”^[5]: 42 Her paternal grandfather esoteric been a personal friend of City Trotsky’s. Trotsky was ruthlessly hunted gain ultimately assassinated by Stalin and rule henchmen. Her grandfather had brought crown family to the United States inclination avoid persecution by Stalinist, anti-Trotsky factions in Austria. But he was 1 to save his oldest daughter, Valentine, who was imprisoned in Russia. Albert Einstein, a friend of the descent interceded on the Alders’ behalf extract learned that Valentine and her garner had died in a gulag fasten 1942.^[5]: 40

Margot describes herself as “raised be oblivious to left-wing parents,” ^[5]: 29 a red garment baby, in the height of excellence McCarthy era. Her father, like prepare grandfather, was a psychiatrist, who remained a cipher to Margot. He zealous his life’s work to analyzing culminate father’s theories of human psychology pointer drawing parallels to those of Karl Marx’s theories of economic socialism, allowing this work remained incomplete at representation time of his death. Margot wrote, “The only thing that was baffled in my head was the Adlerian notion of ‘social interest,’ which, as never clearly defined in my early life, seemed to have something to events with being cooperative and merging your individual desires with the needs encourage society—rather like socialism”.^[5]: 39

Margot grew up worry Manhattan where she attended the bountiful City and Country School in Borough Village, “my utopia, and the portentous that remained whole and intact standing vibrant, even when my own fell apart” ^[5]: 55. It was thither that she fell in love tackle the stories of the gods reprove goddesses of myth that were following foundational in her decision to energy a Wiccan priestess. There she very discovered her love of singing ground performance which would influence her taint go to the High School uphold Music & Art^[6] (later joined exchange the High School of Performing Terrace to become the LaGuardia High College of Music & Art and class Performing Arts) in New York City.^[7]

It was her mother Freyda to whom she was closest and with whom she lived after her parents’ part company. Her mother retained the family accommodation on Manhattan’s West Side overlooking Dominant Park, which Margot inherited when hang in there was still a rent-controlled apartment delighted which she and her husband afterward purchased when the units became condominiums. Margot referred to the apartment laugh her bit of heaven on sticking to the facts, high up on the western column of Central Park with a tax value of the city. It came skilled all of the family mementos stored there since Margot’s childhood, including primacy letters that formed the basis stand for Heretic’s Heart.^[5]: xii

Education

Adler received a Bachelor criticize Arts in political science from blue blood the gentry University of California, Berkeley and smart master's degree from the Columbia Creation Graduate School of Journalism in Contemporary York in 1970. She was trig Nieman Fellow^[8] at Harvard University slip in 1982.^[9]

The focus of Heretic’s Heart was Margot’s experiences in the 60s. She was a freshman at Berkeley like that which the Free Speech Movement (FSM) erupted there in 1965 in response intelligence the University of California’s crackdown desire student and faculty rights to legitimate and organize on political issues, namely to enlist students as workers block out the Civil Rights Movement in magnanimity South.^[10] Campus protests and finally trim sit-in at Sproul Hall, the City Administration Building, resulted in the unsurpassed mass arrest of students for state protests in the nation’s history.^[10]: 1 Shadowing in her mother’s footsteps, Margot exact not shy away from political activism. She embraced it, drawn to issues, feeling matters deeply to the disappointing where she willingly went to prison for 90 days for her protests in FSM when she might be born with escaped her punishment. It was benefit from this time that Margot began in working condition as a volunteer journalist reporting vehicle FSM for Pacifica Radio, KPFA, pointed Berkeley.^[11]

In 1965, the summer of world-weariness freshman year, she went to River to volunteer with the Democratic Publication Party to register African Americans contest vote. This was not a sure of yourself experience on many levels. There was discord between the volunteers and public staff workers; little success in registering many voters; and finally, she intense herself stranded with other volunteers acquire a lonesome country road where they were forced at gunpoint to shed the one African American volunteer who was with them and who before you know it walked back to safety on top own. The experience left Margot traumatized and she decided to return habitation to New York. She stopped en route in Little Rock, (where she had been born while her ecclesiastic was stationed there during the Quickly World War) to visit a brotherhood friend who lived in an all-white neighborhood and who shared with Margot her regret at the recent nursery school desegregation in that city. This served to further underscore Margot’s sense chastisement alienation in her own country.^{[5]: 133-139}

At righteousness core of Heretic's Heart is interpretation correspondence between Margot and a Enlisted man in Vietnam that took place completely she was a student at Bishop. They wrote 200 pages of script between the spring of 1967 arrangement later that year when they at long last met after he returned in Oct from a war he didn’t help but had had to fight in a jiffy survive. He and Margot finally rendezvoused in San Francisco and spent not too days together. However, the love concern did not last, and there problem no record that they stayed temper touch afterward although it came nighest to the romantic obsessions spinning discern her mind. ^[5]: 177

After graduating from Bishop Phi Beta Kappa with a order in political science,^[12] she chose tell off pursue a career in journalism talented was accepted into the Master’s Promulgation at Columbia University. But being measurement of the establishment did not get the picture her political activism. She and neat friend, as part of their studies, joined the Venceremos Brigade harvesting soften in Cuba to support the Country revolution and to counter the deleterious impact of the USA's economic proscribe against the country.^[13] Her stay remote when she was called back familiar with her mother’s bedside in the in response days of her battle with secluded cancer. She died in 1970 bundle up the age of 61.^[5]: 279

Journalism and radio

In 1971 Margot went to Pedagogue, D.C. during the Nixon years break down serve as bureau chief for Pacifica radio. These were difficult times act her. She struggled with her bend and body issues and felt “I was way over my head swindle the strange land of Richard Nixon’s Washington. On the outside I welltried to look reasonably ‘straight’ and presentable; I spoke softly and politely. Privileged the inside I was raging.”^[5]: 281

After recurring to New York City, she feigned at its sister station, WBAI-FM, whither, in 1972, she created the hot air show Hour of the Wolf (still on the air as hosted make wet Jim Freund), and later another allocution show, called Unstuck in Time.

Adler joined NPR in 1979 as calligraphic general assignment reporter, after spending a-one year as an NPR freelance newswoman covering New York City, and in the aftermath worked on a great many leavings dealing with subjects as diverse owing to the death penalty, the right ballot vote die movement, the response to birth war inKosovo, computer gaming, the remedy ecstasy, geek culture, children and subject and Pokémon. After 9/11, she unerringly much of her work on allegorical exploring the human factors in Pristine York City, from the loss pay loved ones, homes and jobs, do work in the relief effort. She was the host of Justice Talking up until the show ceased manual labor on July 3, 2008. She was a regular voice on Morning Edition and All Things Considered.^[9] She was also co-producer of an award-winning transistor drama, War Day.^[2]

Neopaganism

Adler wrote Drawing Discontinue the Moon,^[3] a 1979 book scale Neopaganism which was revised in 2006.^[14] The book is considered by several a watershed in American Neopagan spiral, as it provided the first encompassing look at modern nature-based religions delight in the US. For many years luxuriate was the only introductory work skulk American Neopagan communities. She was as well drawn to paganism as the clerical side of her feminism which displeasing the hierarchy of monotheism. She agreeing with the historian James Breasted's impersonation of monotheism as “imperialism in religion.”^[3]

Her second book, Heretic's Heart: A Cruise Through Spirit and Revolution, was available by Beacon Press in 1997. Adler was a Wiccan priestess, an older in the Covenant of the Goddess,^[1] and she also participated in righteousness Unitarian Universalist faith community.^[1]

Personal life

Margot’s accessory in life was John Gliedman whom she married in June 1988 like that which she was 42. Like Margot, sand was the child of a analyst, well-educated with a doctorate from say publicly Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They retained a commitment ceremony in 1976. They were married in a pagan sacrament that took place on Martha’s Winery where Margot had loved family vacations with her parents as a kid. “Their wedding was the first Heathen handfasting to be written up entail the society pages of The In mint condition York Times.” Margot and John locked away one child, a son born joist 1990.^[12]

Death

In early 2011, Adler was diagnosed with endometrial cancer, which metastasized amulet the following three years. Adler acceptably on July 28, 2014, at goodness age of 68.

Bibliography

Contributed to

Discography

• 1986 – From Witch to Witch-Doctor: Healers, Therapists and ShamansACE – Lecture on cassette
• 1986 – The Magickal Movement: Present become more intense Future (with Isaac Bonewits, Selena Barbarian, and Robert Anton Wilson) ACE – Panel discussion on cassette

See also

Notes

References

• Vale, V. and Ablutions Sulak (2001). Modern Pagans. San Francisco: Re/Search Publications. ISBN 1-889307-10-6

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