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David Margolick

Biography

David Margolick

David Margolick long reported on legal affairs for The New York Times, where he wrote the weekly “At the Bar” column and covered, among other stories, the trial of O.J. Simpson. He was then a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. His many books include BEYOND GLORY: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink; STRANGE FRUIT: The Biography of a Song; DREADFUL: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns; and ELIZABETH AND HAZEL: Two Women of Little Rock. He lives in New York City.

David Margolick

Books by David Margolick

When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy
by David Margolick - Biography, Nonfiction

By the spring of 1954, Sid Caesar was the most influential, highly paid and enigmatic comedian in America. Every week, 20 million people tuned their TVs to "Your Show of Shows" and witnessed his virtuosity in sketches and film spoofs, pantomime and soliloquy. To Caesar’s mostly urban audience, his comedy was an era-defining leap forward from the days of vaudeville. To his rivals, Caesar was the man to beat. To his fellow American Jews, his show’s success meant something more: a post-Holocaust symbol of security and a source of great pride. But behind all that Caesar represented was the real Sid. Introverted and volatile, ill at ease in his own skin, he could terrorize his collaborators but reserved his harshest critiques for himself. In WHEN CAESAR WAS KING, veteran journalist David Margolick conjures this complex man as never before.

Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
by David Margolick - Biography, History

In 1957, a photograph was taken of a black high school girl walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, being screamed at by a white girl. In this gripping book, David Margolick recounts how the photograph has unexpectedly followed both women throughout their lives.