A Wild And Precious Life: A Memoir

"“An Incredibly Long and Amazingly Accomplished Life” would’ve been a more boring but equally apt title for this “memoir/biography hybrid.” Before Edie Windsor became the 83-year-old lead plaintiff in a 2013 case successfully challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, she was a Greenwich Village heartbreaker, pioneering software developer and partner to psychologist Thea Spyer for more than 40 years. Joshua Lyon started interviewing the activist and bon vivant only a year before her death in 2017, but he captures both an epoch in mid-20th century LGBT history and a singular voice: brash, funny and brave."