Author: Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson is Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, and a 2022 recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction. She has published three books: Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir (2022); Negroland: A Memoir (2015), which won the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, The International Bridge Prize, The Heartland Prize and was short-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize; and On Michael Jackson (2005). She has been a staff arts critic for The New York Times and Newsweek, and has published in New York Magazine, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Believer, Guernica, Bookforum, O and VOGUE.