Margot adler biography

American journalist (1946–2014)

Margot Susanna Adler (April 16, 1946 – July 28, 2014) was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She worked as a correspondent for National Public Radio for 35 years, became bureau chief of the New York office, and could be heard frequently on nationally syndicated All Things Considered and Morning Edition on National Public Radio (NPR).^[2] A Wiccan high priestess,^[1] Adler wrote Drawing Down the Moon,^[3] a seminal^{[citation needed]} work 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 of renowned psychologist Alfred Adler, a contemporary and associate of Sigmund Freud’s and Carl Jung’s in Vienna before the Second World War.

She was also the only child of her mother Freyda Nacque Adler (nee Pasternack) who was the daughter of uneducated immigrants, both of whom were dead by the tim