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 1983na 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. Alijiunga na "New York Times" mnamo 1993 kama mwandishi wa vitabu. reviewer,Pia alishinda tuza ya "Pulitzer Prize for Criticism" Mwaka 1995. She also served as the newspaper's theater critic in 2004. 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.

### 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. 

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.",  pia Margaret Busby alieleza kwenye jarida la *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." 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*.

## 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: 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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