Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson
Jefferson at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
Born
Margo Lillian Jefferson

(1947-10-17) October 17, 1947
Occupation
  • Writer
  • critic
  • journalist
  • professor
EducationBrandeis University (BA)
Columbia University (MS)
Period1973–present
Genre
  • Memoir
  • journalism
  • criticism
Notable worksNegroland: A Memoir (2015)
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Criticism; National Book Critics Circle Award; Windham-Campbell Literature Prize; Rathbones Folio Prize

Margo Lillian Jefferson (born October 17, 1947) is an American writer and academic. Also a journalist, writing since 1993 for The New York Times, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1995. Other publications for which she has written include Vogue, New York Magazine, The Nation, and Guernica.

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