Constructing a Nervous System
Rathbones Folio Prize · 2024 · ShortlistRathbones Folio Prize · 2023 · WinnerRathbones Folio Prize · 2022 · ShortlistJames Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography · 2021 · ShortlistRathbones Folio Prize · 2021 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Rathbones Folio Prize | 2024 | Shortlist |
| Rathbones Folio Prize | 2023 | Winner |
| Rathbones Folio Prize | 2022 | Shortlist |
| James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography | 2021 | Shortlist |
| Rathbones Folio Prize | 2021 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Margo Jefferson's memoir is a fragmented, formally experimental work that assembles her influences — jazz, theatre, literature, culture — into a meditation on Black American intellectual and artistic life. Moving between Josephine Baker, Michael Jackson, Marianne Moore, and her own history as a cultural critic, it won the overall Rathbones Folio Prize in 2023.
About the Author
Margo Jefferson is an American cultural critic, memoirist, and journalist born in 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. She studied at the University of Edinburgh and Columbia University. She was a staff writer and cultural critic for The New York Times for twenty-five years and won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1995. Read more →
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