# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/margo-jefferson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:27:10.347Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/margo-jefferson"
name: "Margo Jefferson"
slug: "margo-jefferson"
description: "Margo Lillian Jefferson is an American writer and academic. Also a journalist, writing since 1993 for The New York Times, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1995. Other publications for which she has written include Vogue, New York Magazine, The Nation, and Guernica."
tagline: "American writer and academic (born 1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Margo_Jefferson_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1947-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.99
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.363465333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/MargoJeffersonAuthor"
    handle:    "MargoJeffersonAuthor"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "مارغو جيفرسون"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Margo Jefferson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo_Jefferson"
    title: "Margo Jefferson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo_Jefferson"
    title: "Margo Jefferson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo_Jefferson"
    title: "Margo Jefferson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo_Jefferson"
    title: "Margo Jefferson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo_Jefferson"
    title: "Margo Jefferson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارگو جیفرسن"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump