This in-person event is open to current students, faculty, and staff. Other members of the SLC community are welcome to view the event on Zoom by registering here.
A former senior writer for The New York Times, Margalit Fox has written more than 1,400 news obituaries for the paper. He work has included the public sendoffs of some of the most noteworthy cultural figures of our age: the pioneering feminist Betty Friedan, the writers Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison, the children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak and the poets Seamus Heaney and Adrienne Rich. In this vividly illustrated hourlong lecture, she illuminates the obituary as a way of reading--and writing--social history, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at life on the strangest, and very best, beat in American journalism.
Margalit Fox retired from The New York Times in 2018 after a 24-year career there, most recently as a senior writer. Now focusing exclusively on book-writing, she is the author of four acclaimed narrative nonfiction books, including, most recently, The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History, published by Random House in June 2021. It tells the true story of two British officers, captured in World War I, who escape from a remote Turkish P.O.W. camp ... by means of a Ouija board! Purchase Margalit Fox’s work here.
Heimbold Visual Arts Center 202 Donnelley Film Theatre
Open to the public
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