Margo Jefferson
Margo Jefferson is a professor in the writing department of the Columbia University School of the Arts. She won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, and was a staff writer for The New York Times and Newsweek. Her reviews and essays have appeared in New York Magazine, The New Republic, Vogue, Harper's, and many other publications. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation/Theater Communications Group grant. She has also written and performed two theater pieces at The Cherry Lane Theatre and The Culture Project. She is the author of "On Michael Jackson" and her memoir, "Negroland," was published this September by Pantheon.