Rimer

Alexandra Rimer has been an Assistant Editor at The Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University since 2005.  She is a co-recipient of the Eugene S. Ferguson Prize (Papers of Thomas A. Edison), Society for the History of Technology, 2005. She is also a frequent lecturer on Mina Miller Edison at the Thomas Edison National Historic Park in West Orange, New Jersey, where she lives. She has also been invited to lecture about the Edison family at the Edison family estate in Fort Myers, Florida and the Lewis Miller Cottage in Chautauqua, New York.

Her upcoming book SEDUCED BY THE LIGHT: The Mina Miller Edison Story (Lyons Press, May 2023) is the first biography written about Thomas Edison’s wife. As an historian of Edison, Ms. Rimer is the only person who has seen certain unpublished correspondence of the Edison family.  She has full access to the archive at the Edison National Historic Park and  also is in regular contact with surviving family members who have provided her with their private papers about their family.