Margo Jefferson: ‘I have always loved Michael Jackson’

The US author talks about her book on the pop star whose life distilled so many of our obsessions with race, gender and the bodyMargo Jefferson is the author of Negroland: A Memoir, which won a National Book Critics Circle award, (for autobiography) and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize. Born in Chicago, she lives in New York and has worked as an associate editor for Newsweek, and a book and theatre critic for the New York Times, where she won a Pulitzer prize for criticism. Aged 70,...

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