Margaret Talbot
Introduction '''Margaret Talbot''' is an American essayist and non-fiction writer. She is also the daughter of the veteran Warner Bros. actor Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 ''The New Yorker'' article 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 David Talbot, "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. Her nephew is filmmaker Joe Talbot.
Awards * 1999 Whiting Award
Bibliography === Books ===* * ===Essays and reporting===* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ===Anthologies===* * ===Book reviews===YearReview articleWork(s) reviewed2009
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External links * Margaret Talbot* Profile at The Whiting Foundation