David Margolick

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David Margolick is a longtime contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he writes about culture, the media, and politics.^[1] From 1981 to 1986 he was a legal reporter on the metropolitan desk of The New York Times and from 1987 to 1996 served as the Times national legal affairs editor and law columnist.^[2] He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Stanford Law School.^[2] His weekly column at The New York Times was called At the Bar, which he wrote for seven years. He is the author of Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song. He is noted for his attempt to provide a balanced view of his subjects, with Stanford University's magazine noting, "In a world of instant news and short attention spans, Margolick’s carefully documented stories are what a five-course meal in a French restaurant is to fast food. He is in his element when he can find shades of gray where others are screaming black and white."^[3]