
Margo Lillian Jefferson
A first-rate writer and editor, Randy Gener understands culture in the deepest and widest sense: as news, as art, as politics, as media.
Randy has an international — a global — perspective on culture that is enormously valuable and still too rare among editors and writers.
— Margo Jefferson, best-selling author, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and Columbia University professor.
MARGO JEFFERSON is the best-selling author of On Michael Jackson (2006) and Negroland: A Memoir (2015); Professor of Writing at Columbia University; New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner for Criticism; and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts. She studied at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Brandeis University. She co-wrote Roots of Times: A Portrait of African Life and Culture, about economics, religion and art common to native Africans.