Margaret Talbot is an American
journalist
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Roles
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and nonfiction writer. She is the daughter of the veteran
Warner Bros.
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actor
Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 article of ''
The New Yorker
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'' and in her book ''The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century'' (Riverhead Books, 2012).
She is also the co-author with her brother David Talbot of a book about political activists in the 1960s, ''By the Light of Burning Dreams'' (HarperCollins, 2021).
Life
She is a staff writer at ''The New Yorker''. She has also written for ''
The New Republic
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'', ''
The New York Times Magazine
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'', and ''
The Atlantic Monthly
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''. and was a regular panelist on the ''
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'' podcast "The DoubleX Gabfest".
Her first book, ''The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century'', was published in November 2012 by Riverhead.
Her second book, co-authored with brother David, ''By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution'', was published in June 2021 by HarperCollins.
She was formerly a Senior Fellow at the
New America Foundation
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.
Her brother Stephen Talbot is a public television documentary producer.
[ San Francisco Chronicle https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/stephen-talbot-nixon-vietname-war-documentary-17850940]
Filmmaker
Joe Talbot is her nephew.
Awards
* 1999
Whiting Award
Bibliography
Books
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Essays and reporting
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[Discusses Portlandia, ]Carrie Brownstein
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, Fred Armisen
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Lena Dunham
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's ''Girls''.
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[Photographs by Philip Montgomery]
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[Online version is titled "Scott Pruitt's dirty politics".]
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[Online version is titled "Trump's state of disunion".]
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[Online version is titled "The challenge at the border shows no signs of abating".]
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[Online version is titled "Is the Supreme Court's fate in Elena Kagan's hands?".]
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[Online version is titled "How the real Jane Roe shaped the abortion wars".]
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[Online version is titled "The Supreme Court and the future of Roe v. Wade".]
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[Online version is titled "Justice Alito's crusade against a secular America isn't over".]
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Book reviews
Notes
References
External links
Margaret TalbotProfile at The Whiting Foundation
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American women essayists
Living people
The New Yorker people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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