Margaret Talbot

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).

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.

She was formerly a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. and Executive Editor of The New Republic.

She lives in Washington, DC with her husband, journalist and author Arthur Allen (Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver; Ripe: The Search for the Perfect Tomato) and their two children.

Her brothers are both journalists. Stephen Talbot is a long-time documentary producer for public television (Frontline, Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders) and David Talbot is the founder of Salon.com, the author of Brothers about Robert and John Kennedy, and Season of the Witch about San Francisco in the 1970s.

Her brother Stephen Talbot had a regular role on Leave It to Beaver as Beaver's best friend Gilbert Bates.

Awards

• 1999 Whiting Writers' Award

Bibliography

Essays and reporting

• Talbot, Margaret (January 9, 2000). "The Placebo Prescription". Magazine. The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-04-24. 
• MARGARET TALBOT (February 24, 2002). "Girls Just Want to Be Mean". The New York Times. 
• MARGARET TALBOT (March 30, 2003). "A Woman's Work?". The New York Times. 
• "Red Sex, Blue Sex", The New Yorker, November 3, 2008
• "Courage in Profiles", The Washington Monthly, January/February 2009
• "Brain Gain", The New Yorker, April 27, 2009
• â€" (January 2, 2012). "Stumptown Girl". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker 87 (42): 24â€"29.  Portlandia, Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen
• â€" (April 16, 2012). "Girls will be Girls". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker 88 (9): 39â€"40.  Lena Dunham's Girls.
• â€" (February 16, 2015). "Not immune". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker 91 (1): 19â€"20. Retrieved 2015-04-24. 

Anthologies

• Matt Ridley, ed. (2002). The Best American Science Writing 2002. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-093650-1. 
• Talbot, Margaret (2005). "Material Girls". In Camille Peri, Kate Moses. Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write about Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-059878-5. 

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