Alexis Coe
Presidential historian and columnist
Alexis Coe is an American presidential historian and writer. She wrote You Never Forget Your First, a biography of George Washington.
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About Alexis Coe
Coe is also a columnist, podcast host and exhibition curator. She writes on American history for the New York Times Book Review and is a senior fellow at New America. You Never Forget Your First appeared in 2020 and made the New York Times best-seller list. Her earlier book, Alice and Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis, came out in 2014 and has won awards. Coe has a graduate degree in American history and once worked as a research curator at the New York Public Library. She also served as a consulting producer on the History Channel's Washington, and she has hosted No Man's Land, a women's history podcast from The Wing.