Margalit Fox is a New York
Times journalist originally trained as a linguist. She holds bachelor’s and
master’s degrees in linguistics from Stony Brook University and a master’s
degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Through her
mentor at Stony Brook, the distinguished linguist Mark Aronoff, she first became
aware of the remarkable "signing village" of Al-Sayyid, the community at the
heart of Talking Hands. Margalit is one of only a few journalists in the world
to have set foot in the village, and the only one to publish firsthand reporting
on its extraordinary life and language.
At The Times, Margalit is a reporter in the celebrated Obituary News
department, where she has written send-offs of some of the leading cultural
figures of our era, including the pioneering feminist Betty Friedan, the
literary critic Wayne C. Booth and the philosopher Paul Ricoeur. She has also
written the obituaries of many of the unsung heroes who have managed, quietly,
to touch history, among them the man who invented the crash-test dummy, the
textile conservator who washed Napoleon’s nightshirt and the home economist who
invented Stove Top Stuffing.
Reprinted in newspapers throughout North America and around the world,
Margalit’s work has been anthologized in Best Newspaper Writing, 2005
and elsewhere. She is also featured in The Dead Beat (HarperCollins,
2006), the recent popular book by Marilyn Johnson about the pleasures of
obituaries.
Previously an editor at The New York Times Book Review, Margalit has
written numerous articles on language, culture and ideas for The Times, New
York Newsday, Variety and other publications. She lives in Manhattan with
her husband, the writer and critic George Robinson.
Talking Hands is her first book.
This biography was last updated on 08/29/2007.
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