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About Margo Jefferson
American writer and academic
Margo Jefferson is an American writer, academic, and journalist known for her criticism. She was writing for The New York Times from 1993 and received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1995. Her work has also appeared in Vogue, New York Magazine, The Nation, and Guernica. She is known for cultural criticism and essays that move across literature, art, and public life.
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