Margo Jefferson

Margo Lillian Jefferson (alizaliwa Oktoba 17, 1947) ni mwandishi na mtaaluma wa Marekani.

Wasifu
Jefferson alipata B.A. kutoka Chuo Kikuu cha Brandeis, ambapo alihitimu  cum laude , na Shahada ya uzamili ya Mwalimu wa Sayansi kutoka Chuo Kikuu cha Columbia cha Uandishi wa habari. Alifanya kazi na gazeti la  Newsweek "mnamo mwaka 1973 na alikaa kwenye jarida hilo hadi 1978.Pia aliwahi kuwa profesa msaidizi katika Idara ya Uandishi wa Habari na Mawasiliano  katika Chuo Kikuu cha  New York kutoka mwaka 1979 hadi 1983 na kutoka 1989 hadi mwaka 1991. Tangu wakati huo amefundisha katika Chuo Kikuu cha Chuo Kikuu cha Columbia, ambapo sasa ni profesa wa mazoezi ya uandishi kwa maandishi. Jefferson pia alifundisha katika  Chuo cha Sanaa huria cha Eugene Lang. [http://www.newschool.edu/gf/liberal/faculty/jefferson/index.htm New School for Social Research Alijiunga na "New York Times" mnamo 1993 kama mwandishi wa vitabu. reviewer,Michael Jackson: An American Work in Progress, Presented by Margo Jefferson.OSU. Pia alishinda tuza ya "Pulitzer Prize for Criticism" Mwaka 1995.[https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/margo-jefferson "Margo Jefferson of The New York Times", Mwaka 1995  alishinda "Pulitzer Prize Winner in Criticism",The New York Times bio. She also served as the newspaper's theater critic in 2004.Andrew Gans, Andrew (August 24, 2004). "Variety's Isherwood Named New New York Times Critic"  Playbill. In addition to the Aliandika vitabu kama Vogue (magazine), New York Magazine, The Nation, and Guernica (magazine).Jefferson anavutiwa na mziki wa jazii Zaidi, na alionekana katika  (Ken Burns) 's (Jazz (miniseries) safu ya waraka ya 2001] kuhusu historia ya muziki."Ken Burns’s Jazz" , Jazz Center.Ken Monaco, PBS

Uandishi wa vitabu
Jefferson's 2006 kitabu cha, ” Michael Jackson, was described by Publishers Weekly as a "slim, smart volume of cultural analysis."
Kulingana na kitabu cha Lucy Scholes katika  The Independent : kilicho eleza wasifu wa  Michael Jackson "japo haikuwa  wasifu wa moja kwa moja, kutokana na hatia/mashtaka yaliomkabili kuhusu unyanyasaji wa watoto ingawa aliachiliwa huru.Kitabu icho kilieleza zaidii jambo hilo. Lucy Scholes (May 10, 2018), "On Michael Jackson by Margo Jefferson, review: As smart as it is readable", The Independent.

Kitabu cha wasifu wa Jefferson, Negroland, kilichapishwa mwaka 2015. Ilielezwa na Dwight Garner (critic)| kwenye jarida la The New York Times kama mwanamke mwenye ushawishi mkubwa na wa kukumbukwa.",Dwight Garner (September 10, 2015), "Review: ‘Negroland,’ by Margo Jefferson, on Growing Up Black and Privileged", The New York Times.  pia Margaret Busby alieleza kwenye jarida la The Sunday Times Margaret Busby (June 19, 2016), "Books: Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson", The Sunday Times. Baadae  Anita Sethi aliandika The Observer: "Jefferson fascinatingly” Ambapo alieleza umahiri wake na mwingiliano katika siasa na pia alieleza historia ya tangu kuzaliwa kwake."Anita Sethi (January 22, 2017), "Negroland by Margo Jefferson review – a brilliant memoir about race in America", The Observer. Tracy K. Smith
aliandika katika jarida la   The New York Times : "Maudhui yaliyoandikwa kwenye hadithi ya 'Negroland' Vilivyoangazia uwezekano wa mwandishi wake kukithiri mbele ya nyenzo zake." In 2016 Negroland was shotlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the Autobiography category.

Jefferson ni mchangiaji wa antholojia ya 2019  New Daughters of Africa.Margaret Busby (March 9, 2019), "From Ayòbámi Adébáyò to Zadie Smith: meet the New Daughters of Africa", The Guardian.

Tuzo
1995: Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, mshindi wa ukaguzi wa vitabu vyake na uchambuzi mwingine wa kitamaduni katika jarida la  The New York Times.'.
2016: National Book Critics Circle Award (Autobiography), mshindi kwa kumbukumbu yake Negroland: A Memoir.
2016: kitabu cha [[Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, for Negroland

Marejeo

Viungo vya nje
 Margo Jefferson, The Poet and the Poem 2017–18 Series
 Tim Adams, "Margo Jefferson: ‘I was anxious about using the word Negro in a book title’" (interview), The Observer, May 22, 2016.
 "Margo Jefferson: The Books in My Life | On the Pleasures of Poetry and (Not) Reading the Russians", Lit Hub, August 23, 2016.
 Arifa Akbar, "Margo Jefferson: ‘I have always loved Michael Jackson’" (interview), The Guardian, May 5, 2018.
 Zinzi Clemmons, "Interview with Margo Jefferson", The White Review, October 2018.

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