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,Margaret Talbot tnr.com 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.New America Foundation
Her brother Stephen Talbot is a public television documentary producer. San Francisco Chronicle https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/stephen-talbot-nixon-vietname-war-documentary-17850940 Filmmaker Joe Talbot is her nephew.
Awards 1999 Whiting Award
Bibliography
Books
Essays and reporting
' — (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 YearReview articleWork(s) reviewed2009
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External links Margaret Talbot Profile at The Whiting Foundation