Alice Ruth Wexler (born 1942) is an American author and historian.

She has written two biographies on the anarchist Emma Goldman.

Though her parents divorced in 1962, her mother's diagnosis of Huntington's disease late in the 1960s became a central research focus of the family.

[3] Wexler taught at Sonoma State University from 1972 to 1982.

She served as a visiting professor of history at multiple American universities and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999.