Margaret Talbot

Margaret Talbot has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2004, and was a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and Executive Editor of The New Republic. Her writing has appeared in outlets including the Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and the Times Book Review. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award and a New America Foundation Fellowship, among other honors, and is the author of The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father’s Twentieth Century, about Lyle Talbot, her father. She also wrote, with David Talbot, By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution.