Margaret Talbot is an American
essayist and non-fiction writer. She is also the daughter of the veteran
Warner Bros. actor
Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 ''
The New Yorker'' article 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'', ''
The New York Times Magazine'', and ''
The Atlantic Monthly''. and was a regular panelist on the ''
Slate
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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 David Talbot, "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. Her nephew is filmmaker
Joe Talbot.
Awards
* 1999
Whiting Award
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Bibliography
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Essays and reporting
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[Discusses Portlandia, Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen]
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[ Lena Dunham'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 "The Supreme Court and the future of Roe v. Wade".]
Anthologies
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Book reviews
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External links
Profile at The Whiting Foundation
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American essayists
Living people
The New Yorker people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)