Margo Jefferson

Margo Jefferson
Jefferson at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
Jefferson at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
BornMargo Lillian Jefferson
(1947-10-17) October 17, 1947 (age 76)
Occupation
  • Writer
  • critic
  • journalist
  • professor
EducationBrandeis University (BA)
Columbia University (MS)
Period1973–present
Genre
  • Memoir
  • journalism
  • criticism
Notable worksNegroland: A Memoir (2015)
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Criticism; National Book Critics Circle Award; Windham-Campbell Literature Prize; Rathbones Folio Prize

Margo Lillian Jefferson (born October 17, 1947)[1] is an American writer and academic.

  1. ^ "Margo Jefferson's Biography". The History Makers. January 20, 2017. Retrieved May 5, 2021.