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Margo Jefferson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic. She has been a staff writer for The New York Times and Newsweek, and her reviews and essays have appeared in New York Magazine, Grand Street, Vogue, Harper’s and many other publications. Her book, "On Michael Jackson," was published in 2005. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation and Theater Communications Group grant.
Jefferson has also written and performed two theater pieces at The Cherry Lane Theatre and The Culture Project. Her 2015 book, the memoir "Negroland," received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, The Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, The Bridge Prize for Nonfiction, and was short-listed for The Baillie Gifford Prize. The New York Times also listed it as one of the 50 best memoirs of the last 50 years.
Her latest memoir, "Constructing a Nervous System," was published in April, 2022.
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