Margalit Fox

Published: April 1, 2023, 12:38 p.m.

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For years, the obituaries she wrote for\\xa0The New York Times were the first thing I\\u2019d read in the paper\\u2014elegant little biographies, exemplary work in a form that she says was once \\u201cthe scarlet O you wore on your dress that said, I\\u2019m a bad writer but the paper doesn\\u2019t quite have enough on me to be able to fire me.\\u201d

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