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Margalit Fox

Margalit Fox is a public speaker and an award-winning reporter in the famed obituary news department of The New York Times as well a former New York Times Book Review editor. Fox has a master's degrees in linguistics from Stony Brook University and a masters degree from Columbia Journalism. she lives in Manhattan with her husband, the writer and critic George Robinson..

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Reuters via Yahoo!, May 15, 2012
...Came the Stranger, a hugely successful erotic novel written collaboratively by 25 Newsday journalists. New York Times obituarist Margalit Fox highlights some of the more memorable sequences: [T]he novel was a no-holds-barred chronicle of a suburban...
Star-Telegram, May 9, 2012
...Topics: Maurice Sendak By Margalit Fox A Have more to add? News tip? Tell us The New York Times Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children's book artist of the 20th century and...
New York Times, May 9, 2012
...and reassuring stories more, or did you enjoy the the dark and unpredictable? In ?,? obituary reporter Margalit Fox describes Mr. Sendak?s characters:In book after book, Mr. Sendak upended the staid, centuries-old tradition of American children’s...
New York Times, May 9, 2012
...and reassuring stories more, or did you enjoy the the dark and unpredictable? In "," obituary reporter Margalit Fox describes Mr. Sendak’s characters: In book after book, Mr. Sendak upended the staid, centuries-old tradition of American children’s...
New York Times, March 29, 2012
...material and the dream can join and that is the poem and that is the late report. In Margalit Fox writes: Adrienne Rich, a poet of towering reputation and towering rage, whose work — distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling,...
IBNLive India News, March 29, 2012
...who were disadvantaged. "She accomplished in verse what Betty Friedan, author of 'The Feminine Mystique,' did in prose," Margalit Fox wrote of the pioneering feminist bard in The New York Times obituary. The Poetry Foundation's website called her "one of...
About, March 29, 2012
...s lives. from The New York Times: “A Poet of Unswerving Vision at the Forefront of Feminism,” by Margalit Fox This obituary closes with a concise reminder of Rich’s vision of her place in the world as a poet: “For all her verbal prowess, for all...
New York Times, March 1, 2012
...of records in the 1960s. Mr. Jones, 66, died Wednesday in Florida, apparently of a heart attack. As Margalit Fox wrote in Mr. Jones’ obituary in The Times, the group “never pretended to be anything other than what it was: a smoke-and-mirrors...
New York Times, February 27, 2012
...is to be a happy person if your mother thinks your smile is disgusting?”) Our winner comes from Margalit Fox’s obituary of the adventurer John Fairfax: “At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar.” If you haven’t read the whole obituary, you should:...
New York Times, February 25, 2012
...The Times , described as the first lone oarsman in recorded history to traverse any ocean. The article, by Margalit Fox, was a stylistic gem. For all its bravura, Mr. Fairfaxs seafaring almost pales beside his earlier ventures, she wrote. Footloose and...
New York Times, February 24, 2012
...is, a conscious sitting with folded arms. (Fyodor Dostoevsky, ‘‘Notes From Underground’’) H. At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. (Margalit Fox’s obituary of John Fairfax) Loading?...
New York Times, February 24, 2012
...inertia — that is, a conscious sitting with folded arms. (Fyodor Dostoevsky, ) H. At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. (Margalit Fox’s ) Loading…...
Advertising Age, February 23, 2012
...Amy Harmon's "The story behind the best NYT correction ever" was huge, as was my post on Margalit Fox's "insane" John Fairfax obituary. The item about Halifax Media prematurely posting the NYT Regional papers on its site before the NYT-Halifax deal was...
Washington Post, February 21, 2012
...first take on his life, and then an editor at the Times handed the Posts work to writer Margalit Fox. A story of pistols and jaguars and transoceanic rowing ensued. *The Chicago News Cooperative is shutting down *Glenn Beck, a Mormon, says that . [The...