Author Publicity Events

Peggy Drexler, Ph.D., has spent her career studying men and women: who they are, what they want, how they act, how they're changing.

Her latest focus is on the new American family, which led to the much-discussed book: Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men (Finalist Lamda Literary Award And Finalist Books For A Better Life Award; San Francisco Best Selling List). Her work received wide praise -- for showing that effective families come in many forms, including mothers single by choice and lesbian parents -- and sharp criticism by those who believe the word family has just one definition.

She is currently at work on a new book about fathers and daughters and a compilation of essays about her two beloved yellow Labrador Retrievers.

Dr. Drexler has been a clinician and lecturer at the New York Hospital/Cornell Medical School, researcher at Stanford University as a Gender Scholar, and is currently Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

She is an in-demand speaker, with presentations at Harvard Medical School, Harvard Law School and many other colleges and universities across the United States. She has appeared on numerous television shows, including Good Morning America and TODAY. She frequently offers her expert commentary on gender, families and the lives of boys to national, local, international and professional publications. Among them: Newsweek, USA TODAY, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, The Houston Chronicle, The Seattle Times, The Observer (United Kingdom), Ma'ariv (Israel), O Estado De S. Paulo (Brazil), Cosmopolitan, Health, Parents, Maclean's Magazine (Canada), Washingtonpost.com, The Huffington Post, Women's eNews, The Bulletin of The Menninger Clinic and others.

She and her husband of over 30 years have two children -- a daughter fifteen and a son twenty-nine -- and currently reside with their daughter and two Labrador Retrievers in New York.