Margo Jefferson
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Margo Lillian Jefferson (born October 17, 1947) is a theatre critic at The New York Times. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Brandeis University, where she graduated cum laude, and her MS from Columbia University. She became an associate editor at Newsweek in 1973 and stayed at the magazine until 1978. She then served as an assistant professor at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at New York University from 1979 to 1983 and from 1989 to 1991. After that she taught at Columbia. She joined the NY Times in 1993 and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.[1] She had started as a book reviewer.[2]
She has also appeared on Ken Burns's Jazz (documentary)[3] as jazz is a subject she is interested in.[4] She is also working on two books concerning race and culture in America.[5]
