Alexis Coe

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

Alexis Coe is an American presidential historian, columnist, podcast host, exhibition curator and tv commenter. She is a senior fellow at New America, the American history columnist at the New York Times Book Review, 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 was produced by the women's coworking space company The Wing.[14] It won a Webby award for Best Series.[15] Episodes have focused on Stephanie St. Clair, a leader of a Harlem-based criminal syndicate; Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-American artist;[16] and Ida B. Wells, a journalist and early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.[14]

In 2020, Coe published You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington, making her the first woman with a published biography of Washington in over a century.[citation needed] The book became a New York Times best-seller in February 2020 and was widely praised as genre-breaking.[3][6][17][18]

Coe produced and starred in The History Channel's Washington series with Doris Kearns Goodwin.[19]

In 2023, she spoke on CBS News about the historical significance of the March 2023 Indictment of Donald Trump.[20] In 2025 Coe testified at the second hearing of the House Oversight Committee's "Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets".[21]

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.[22] She cared for her grandmother at the end of her life.[23] Coe shared a birthday with her maternal grandfather, who is her daughter's namesake.[24] She has an older brother.[23]

Coe lives in New York with her young daughter.[25][26][27][28]

Bibliography

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References

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