Margaret Talbot

Margaret Talbot has been a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine since 2004, and was formerly a Contributing Writer for The New Yorker magazine, Executive Editor of The New Republic, and a founding editor of Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life. She's been a recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award and a New America Foundation Fellowship, and lives in Washington, D.C., though she left her heart in California, where she grew up.