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Margalit Fox (born April 25, 1961) [1] is an American writer. After earning a master's degree in linguistics, she began her career in publishing in the 1980s. In 1994, she joined The New York Times as a copy editor for its Book Review and later wrote widely on language, culture and ideas for The New York Times, New York Newsday, Variety and ...
Margalit Fox | Journalist, Author, Lecturer. BOOKS. Talking Hands. For the first time, a book for a popular readership takes a look at the world of the signed languages of the deaf—and explains what they reveal about how all language, signed and spoken, works inside our heads. (2007) The Riddle of the Labyrinth.
Margalit Fox is a former senior writer at the New York Times, where she wrote obituaries of cultural figures and unsung heroes. She is also the author of four books, including The Confidence Men, a nonfiction thriller about a P.O.W. escape via Ouija board.
19 hours ago · The sordid but riveting history of the Jewish contribution to organized crime is told in two exuberant new true-crime books, “The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum,” by Margalit Fox, and “The ...
Margalit Fox is a former senior writer on the obituaries desk at The New York Times. She was previously a staff editor at the Book Review.
Jun 28, 2018 · A New York Times obituary writer for 14 years, Margalit Fox takes a crack at her own epitaph.
Combining deep historical research with the narrative flair for which she is celebrated, Margalit Fox tells the unforgettable true story of a once-famous heroine whose life exemplifies America’s cherished rags-to-riches narrative while simultaneously upending it entirely.
