Early Life
Wachtel was born in Montreal in 1947. Interested in books and reading from an early age, her Grade 8 teacher introduced her to the works of Shakespeare and Bronte. She found high school intellectually stimulating, "surrounded by gifted classmates with diverse backgrounds." She studied English literature at McGill University, where she worked for the student newspaper and was on the executive of the Undergraduate Literary Society.
Following McGill, Wachtel enrolled (“partly by default,” she says) in a master’s in journalism at Syracuse University. On graduation from the journalism program she accompanied her anthropologist husband to Kenya.
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