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Margo Jefferson

1947–

United States

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Margo Lillian Jefferson (born October 17, 1947) is an American writer and academic. Also a journalist, writing since 1993 for The New York Times, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1995. Other publications for which she has written include Vogue, New York Magazine, The Nation, and Guernica.

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