Margaret Talbot is an American journalist and nonfiction writer.[1] She is the daughter of the veteran Warner Bros. actor Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 article of The New Yorker and in her book The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century (Riverhead Books, 2012).[2] 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).[3]

Margaret Talbot
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • essayist
  • writer
NationalityAmerican
GenreNonfiction
Notable awardsWhiting Award (1999)
ParentsLyle Talbot
Margaret Epple
RelativesJoe Talbot
Website
margarettalbot.com

Life

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She is a staff writer at The New Yorker.[4] She has also written for The New Republic,[5] The New York Times Magazine,[6] and The Atlantic Monthly.[7] and was a regular panelist on the Slate podcast "The DoubleX Gabfest".[8][9]

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.[10]

Her brother Stephen Talbot is a public television documentary producer.[11] Filmmaker Joe Talbot is her nephew.

Awards

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Bibliography

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Books

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  • Talbot, Margaret (2012). The entertainer: movies, magic, and my father's Twentieth Century. Riverhead.
  • Talbot, David & Margaret Talbot (2021). By the light of burning dreams: the triumphs and tragedies of the second American revolution. New York: Harper.

Essays and reporting

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Anthologies

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  • Matt Ridley, ed. (2002). The Best American Science Writing 2002. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-093650-1.
  • Talbot, Margaret (2005). "Material girls". In Peri, Camille & Kate Moses (eds.). Because I said so: 33 mothers write about children, sex, men, aging, faith, race, and themselves. HarperCollins.

Book reviews

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Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
2009 Talbot, Margaret (January–February 2009). "Courage in profiles: how Marjorie Williams rendered the lives of Washington's powerful". Washington Monthly: 52–54. Williams, Marjorie. Timothy Noah (ed.). Reputation: portraits in power. Public Affairs.

Notes

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  1. ^ Discusses Portlandia, Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen
  2. ^ Lena Dunham's Girls.
  3. ^ Photographs by Philip Montgomery
  4. ^ Online version is titled "Scott Pruitt's dirty politics".
  5. ^ Online version is titled "Trump's state of disunion".
  6. ^ Online version is titled "The challenge at the border shows no signs of abating".
  7. ^ Online version is titled "Is the Supreme Court's fate in Elena Kagan's hands?".
  8. ^ Online version is titled "How the real Jane Roe shaped the abortion wars".
  9. ^ Online version is titled "The Supreme Court and the future of Roe v. Wade".
  10. ^ Online version is titled "Justice Alito's crusade against a secular America isn't over".

References

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  1. ^ "Margaret Talbot - Liberal Journalist". Democratic Hub.
  2. ^ Talbot, Margaret (October 1, 2012). "The Screen Test". The New Yorker. pp. 32–37.
  3. ^ "BY THE LIGHT OF BURNING DREAMS | Kirkus Reviews". Retrieved September 2, 2023 – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
  4. ^ "Search: The New Yorker". www.newyorker.com. Archived from the original on December 1, 2010.
  5. ^ Margaret Talbot tnr.com [dead link]
  6. ^ "Margaret Talbot". The New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
  7. ^ "Margaret Talbot". The Atlantic.
  8. ^ Rosin, Hanna; Talbot, Margaret; Bazelon, Emily (May 20, 2010). "DoubleX Gabfest, the "Which Lie Is Worse?" Edition". Slate.
  9. ^ "The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism". feeds.feedburner.com.
  10. ^ New America Foundation [dead link]
  11. ^ San Francisco Chronicle https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/stephen-talbot-nixon-vietname-war-documentary-17850940
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