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David Margolick (born January 3, 1952) is an American journalist. He is long-time contributing editor atVanity Fair. Margolick has held similar positions atNewsweek andPortfolio.com. Prior to joiningVanity Fair he was a legal affairs reporter atThe New York Times, where he wrote the weekly “At the Bar" column and covered the trials ofO.J. Simpson,Lorena Bobbitt, andWilliam Kennedy Smith. In his fifteen years at theTimes, the paper entered his work four times for thePulitzer Prize. He remains a frequent contributor toThe New York Times Book Review. His work has also appeared inThe New York Review of Books,Tablet,[1] andThe Forward.
Margolick graduated from theLoomis Chaffee School in 1970 and graduated from theUniversity of Michigan with a B.A. andStanford Law School with aJ.D. degree. He is the author ofDreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns, a biography of the controversial American authorJohn Horne Burns. Margolick is also the author ofElizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock, a study of the principal figures in the iconic photograph fromthe 1957 school desegregation crisis and published in October 2011 by Yale University Press. In July 2011 his long-form articleA Predator Priest, about a family's long quest to bring a pedophile priest from Margolick's hometown ofPutnam, Connecticut, to justice was posted onKindle Singles. An article he authored forThe New York Times on the Community Concert series[2] includes significant discussion of his mother's work for the program and photos he took of classical music performers who came toPutnam, Connecticut, as a child.
His prior books includeBeyond Glory:Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink, published by Knopf in 2005;Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song (2001);At the Bar: The Passions and Peccadillos of American Lawyers (1995); andUndue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune (1994).Strange Fruit won a 2001Firecracker Alternative Book Award.[3]
Margolick is currently[when?] writing a book onSid Caesar’sYour Show of Shows forNextbook’s Jewish Encounters Series (Schocken/Random House). He has been an adjunct professor inNew York University’s Department of Journalism and lives inNew York City andSag Harbor.
