![]() ![]() ![]() She is an intellectual, but she’s a bubbly one, genuinely interested in others as individuals, not just subjects to be dryly analyzed. But behind-and within-Jefferson’s work is an exuberant curiosity about why people act as they do. It’s easy to be a critic, as the snarky saying goes. And “Scenes from a Life in Negroland,” an excerpt from her book that was first published in Guernica, will be included in The Best American Essays 2015, edited by Ariel Levy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oct.). ![]() Her work has appeared in a torrent of publications, including Newsweek, New York magazine, Vogue, and Harper’s, and her essays have been anthologized in the Best African American Essays 2009, edited by Gerald Early and Randall Kennedy (One World/Ballantine). Jefferson, an esteemed journalist known for her book reviews and cultural criticism, won a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1995 while she was the Sunday theater critic at the New York Times. In this, the 21st century, seeing a book with an incendiary title like Negroland might evoke the side-eye from some: this author may have some explaining to do!īut another look reveals that, in this case, the author behind the title is Margo Jefferson-and suddenly, that’s explanation enough. ![]()
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