Margaret Talbot is an American essayist and non-fiction writer
Background
She is also the daughter of the veteran Warner Brothers actor Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 The New Yorker article and in her book The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father"s Twentieth Century (Riverhead Books, 2012).
Career
She is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She has also written for The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, and The Atlantic Monthly. and was a regular panelist on the Slate podcast "The DoubleX Gabfest". Her first book, The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father"s Twentieth Century, was published in November 2012 by Riverhead.
She was formerly a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. and Executive Editor of The New Republic.
Her brothers are both journalists.