Margaret Talbot

Margaret Talbot
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • essayist
  • writer
Parent(s)Lyle Talbot
Margaret Epple
RelativesJoe Talbot
Writing career
GenreNonfiction
Notable awardsWhiting Award (1999)
Websitemargarettalbot.com

Margaret Talbot is an American journalist and nonfiction writer. She is the daughter of the veteran Warner Bros. actor Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 article of The New Yorker and in her book The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century (Riverhead Books, 2012). She is also the co-author with her brother David Talbot of a book about political activists in the 1960s, By the Light of Burning Dreams (HarperCollins, 2021).