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Margaret Talbot

American essayist and non-fiction writer

Summary

American essayist and non-fiction writer

Field	Value
name	Margaret Talbot
occupation	{{flatlist
nationality	American
genre	Nonfiction
awards	Whiting Award (1999)
parents	Lyle Talbot
Margaret Epple
relatives	Joe Talbot
website

Journalist
essayist
writer Margaret Epple Margaret Talbot is an American journalist and nonfiction writer. 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). 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 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.

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

Awards

1999 Whiting Award

Bibliography

Books

Essays and reporting

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— (May 12, 2008). "Birdbrain". A Reporter at Large. The New Yorker.
Discusses Portlandia, Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen
Lena Dunham's Girls.
Photographs by Philip Montgomery
Online version is titled "Scott Pruitt's dirty politics".
Online version is titled "Trump's state of disunion".
Online version is titled "The challenge at the border shows no signs of abating".
Online version is titled "Is the Supreme Court's fate in Elena Kagan's hands?".
Online version is titled "How the real Jane Roe shaped the abortion wars".
Online version is titled "The Supreme Court and the future of Roe v. Wade".
Online version is titled "Justice Alito's crusade against a secular America isn't over".

Anthologies

Book reviews

	Year	Review article	Work(s) reviewed
2009

Notes

References

"Margaret Talbot - Liberal Journalist".
Talbot, Margaret. (October 1, 2012). "The Screen Test".
"BY THE LIGHT OF BURNING DREAMS | Kirkus Reviews".
"Search: The New Yorker".
[http://www.tnr.com/search/apachesolr_search/margaret%20talbot Margaret Talbot] tnr.com {{Dead link. (February 2022)
"Margaret Talbot". The New York Times.
"Margaret Talbot".
(May 20, 2010). "DoubleX Gabfest, the "Which Lie Is Worse?" Edition". Slate.
"The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism".
[https://web.archive.org/web/20100115181854/http://newamerica.net/user/99 New America Foundation]
San Francisco Chronicle https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/stephen-talbot-nixon-vietname-war-documentary-17850940

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