Constructing a Nervous System

Name: Constructing a Nervous System
ISBN: 9781524748951

Rathbones Folio · 2024 · ShortlistRathbones Folio · 2023 · WinnerRathbones Folio · 2022 · ShortlistJames Tait · 2021 · ShortlistRathbones Folio · 2021 · Shortlist

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PantheonApril 5, 2022Biography & Memoir NonfictionISBN 9781524748951

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Rathbones Folio Prize	2024	Shortlist
Rathbones Folio Prize	2023	Winner	“For its formally fragmented meditation on Black American intellectual life — a memoir that is also cultural history and formal experiment.”
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 JeffersonUS

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 →