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Margalit Fox


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. After beginning her career in publishing in the 1980s, Fox switched to journalism in the 1990s, and finally became an obituary writer in 2004. She also writes non-fiction books.

Fox was born in Glen Cove, New York, the daughter of David (a physicist) and Laura Fox. 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. Fox also studied the cello.

In the 1980s, before attending journalism school, Fox worked in book and magazine publishing. She was later an editor for The New York Times Book Review. 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. Since 2004, Fox has written more than 1,200 obituaries for The New York Times, where she is now a senior writer.

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. 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." In 2014, The Paris Review called Fox "An instrumental figure in pushing the obituary past Victorian-era formal constraints". In its 2015 roundup of "Best journalism of 2015", Sports Illustrated referred to her as "The great NYT obit writer". In 2016, Atlantic Monthly described her as "the finest obituarist at The New York Times". 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.


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