- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 47 min., 53 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Professor and art critic Margo Jefferson was born on October 17, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. She received her B.A. degree in English and American literature from Brandeis University in 1968, and her M.S. degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1971. In 1973, Jefferson was hired as an associate editor for Newsweek magazine. She became an assistant professor at New York University in 1979, and, from 1984 to 1989, worked as an arts criticism contributing editor for Vogue magazine. In 1991, Jefferson was hired as a lecturer and later a professor of writing at Columbia University. In 1993, she accepted a position at the New York Times as a culture critic. While at the Times, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1995, and was promoted to critic-at-large in 1996. Jefferson's autobiography, Negroland, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography in 2016.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Margo Jefferson
- Margo Jefferson
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1000519364
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Margo Jefferson.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
024753
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Harriette Cole, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2017 January 20.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Journalism Professor Art Critic.
- Added Author
Jefferson, Margo, 1947- interviewee.
Cole, Harriette, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.