Margalit Fox

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Margalit Fox (born 1961) is an American writer for The New York Times, and other publications, and is a book author. She has written more than 1,200 obituaries for the Times.

Biography

Fox was born in Glen Cove, New York, the daughter of David (a physicist) and Laura Fox.[1] She attended Barnard College in New York City and then Stony Brook University, where she completed her bachelor's degree (1982) and then a master's degree in linguistics in 1983. She received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1991.[2]

Fox is a senior writer at The New York Times, where she began her career as an editor for The New York Times Book Review.[3] Since 2004, she has written more than 1,200 obituaries for The Times.[4] She has written widely on language, culture and ideas for The New York Times, New York Newsday, Variety and other publications. Her work was anthologized in Best Newspaper Writing, 2005.[2][5]

In 2011, The Newswomen's Club of New York awarded Fox its Front Page Award for her collection of work at The New York Times.[6] In 2014, she won Stanford University's William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her book The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code. The New York Times also ranked the book as one of the "100 Notable Books of 2013."[5] In 2014, The Paris Review called Fox "An instrumental figure in pushing the obituary past Victorian-era formal constraints".[3] In it's 2015 roundup of "Best journalism of 2015", Sports Illustrated referred to her as "The great NYT obit writer".[7] In 2016, Atlantic Monthly described her as "the finest obituarist at The New York Times".[8] Calling her "The Artist of the Obituary", Andrew Ferguson wrote in Commentary magazine: "Margalit Fox is one of those writers ... whose every paragraph carries an undercurrent of humor ... you’re never more than a few sentences away from an ironic aside or wry observation or the sudden appearance of some cockeyed fact. ... Stranger still, Fox maintains her writerly bounce despite her regular subject, which is death. ...Margalit Fox is ... the best writer all around, at the New York Times.[9]

Fox has said: "In the course of an obit, you’re charged with taking your subject from the cradle to the grave, which gives you a natural narrative arc. ... 98 percent of the obit has nothing to do with death, but with life. ... We like to say it’s the jolliest department in the paper."[3] Fox is featured in Vanessa Gould's 2016 documentary film Obit about the New York Times obituary staff.[10]

She is married to writer and critic George Robinson.[2]

Bibliography

Notable obituaries

References

  1. ↑ "Fox, Margalit", Encyclopedia.com
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "About the Author", TalkingHandsBook.com, accessed June 16, 2013
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ronan, Alex. "The Art of the Obituary: An Interview with Margalit Fox", The Paris Review, September 23, 2014, accessed May 24, 2016
  4. ↑ Davis, Simon. "How the New York Times Churns Out 1,000 Obituaries Every Year", Vice.com, January 5, 2015
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Karampelas, Gabrielle. "Margalit Fox and Kiese Laymon win Stanford's 2014 Saroyan Prize for Writing", Stanford News, Stanford University, August 21, 2014
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  7. ↑ Deitsch, Richard. "Best journalism of 2015; GameDay ratings soar this year and more", Sports Illustrated, December 22, 2015
  8. ↑ Meyer, Robinson. "Not Doomed Yet: Obama and China Slow Coal's Roll", Atlantic Monthly, January 20, 2016
  9. ↑ Ferguson, Andrew. "The Artist of the Obituary", Commentary, October 1, 2013, accessed May 24, 2016
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Dries, Kate. "'Died Is Died Is Died': Talking with Vanessa Gould and Margalit Fox of Obit", The Muse: Jezebel, April 20, 2016
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  27. ↑ Fox, Margalit (December 19, 2015). "Kurt Masur, acclaimed international conductor, dies at 88", The Seattle Times
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