Editing Elizabeth Edwards (section)

==Professional life==
Edwards began her career as a [[law clerk|judicial law clerk]] for a federal judge [[Joseph Calvitt Clarke Jr.]]. She then moved to [[Nashville, Tennessee]], in 1978 to become an associate at the law firm of ''Harwell Barr Martin & Sloan''. In 1981, she and her husband moved their family to [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]], where she worked in the [[North Carolina Attorney General|Office of the Attorney General]] and at the law firm ''Merriman Nicholls and Crampton''. She kept the last name Anania until 1996,<ref>{{cite web |author=Ellen Hawkes |url=http://www.msmagazine.com/spring2004/edwards.asp |title=Elizabeth Edwards, The Strategist |publisher=[[Ms. Magazine]] |access-date=May 1, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101211090456/http://www.msmagazine.com/spring2004/edwards.asp |archive-date=December 11, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> when she retired from the practice of law following the death of her son Wade; she changed her name to Elizabeth Anania Edwards in his memory. Following her retirement from law, she devoted much of her time to the administration of the Wade Edwards Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wade.org/ |title=Wade Edwards Foundation website |publisher=Wade.org |access-date=May 1, 2011}}</ref> She taught legal writing as an [[adjunct faculty|adjunct instructor]] at the [[University of North Carolina School of Law]] and worked as a [[substitute teacher]] in the [[Wake County Public Schools]]. In August 2009, she opened a furniture store in Chapel Hill.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://abc11.com/archive/6978049/|title=Edwards opens furniture store: Elizabeth Edwards is now a business owner|date=August 23, 2009|publisher=abc11.com|access-date=December 7, 2010|location=Chapel Hill, NC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628225310/http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=6978049|archive-date=June 28, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

In September 2006, [[Random House]] published her first book, ''Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers'',<ref name="saving"/> which focused on the ways different communities have helped her through the trials of her life, from her itinerant military childhood to the death of her son and her early bout with breast cancer. In May 2009, Random House published her second book, ''Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversities'',<ref name="resilience"/> in which she discussed the return of her illness, the deaths of her father and son and the effect of those events on her marriage, her husband's infidelity, and the state of healthcare in America.<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book8-2009may08,0,5029044.story | work=Los Angeles Times | title='Resilience' by Elizabeth Edwards | date=May 8, 2009 | first=Scott | last=Martelle}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/elizabeth-edwards|title=The Pain of Elizabeth Edwards| last=Hitchens|first=Christopher|date=September 2009|work=The Atlantic|access-date=December 7, 2010}}</ref> Both books were bestsellers.