David Margolick

David Margolick (born January 3, 1952 ) is an American journalist and non-fiction author.

life and work

Margolick grew up in the small town of Putnam, Connecticut , attended the prestigious Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut, and then studied law at the University of Michigan and Stanford University ( JD 1977). After completing his doctorate, he decided to pursue a career as a legal journalist and initially wrote for the journals The National Law Journal and The American Lawyer . In 1981 he moved to the New York Times , where he rose to become Chief Court Reporter ( National Legal Affairs Correspondent ); Among other things, he reported for the newspaper on the trials against OJ Simpson , Lorena Bobbitt and William Kennedy Smith . Four of his articles for the Times were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize . In 1996 he moved to Vanity Fair as an editor , with which he is still associated today, but he also publishes in other magazines such as The New York Times Book Review , The New York Review of Books , Tablet and Forward and teaches at the journalism school of New York University .

His topics are broad, including reporting for Vanity Fair on the Middle East conflict and interviewing Benjamin Netanyahu as well as Abd al-Aziz ar-Rantisi . He is the author of several non-fiction books, including one about the two boxing matches between Max Schmeling and Joe Louis (1936/38), one about Billie Holidays Song Strange Fruit and its reception, a biography about two of the Little Rock Nine , and another about the writer John Horne Burns .

Undue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune . W. Morrow, New York 1993, ISBN 0688064256 .
At the Bar: The Passions and Peccadillos of American Lawyers . Simon & Schuster, New York 1995, ISBN 0671887874 .
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights . Philadelphia, Running Press 2000, ISBN 0762406771 .
Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink . Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2005, ISBN 0375411925 .
- German Max Schmeling and Joe Louis: Battle of the Giants - Battle of the Systems . German by Stefan Knerrich. Blessing, Munich 2005, ISBN 9783896671691 .
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock . Yale University Press, New Haven CN 2011, ISBN 9780300141931 .
A Predator Priest . Kindle Singles, 2011.
Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns . Other Press, New York 2013, ISBN 9781590515716 .

personal data
SURNAME	Margolick, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American journalist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH	January 3, 1952