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in Glen Cove, N.Y., The United States
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Nonfiction, History, Mystery

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Margalit Fox originally trained as a cellist and a linguist before pursuing journalism. As a senior writer in The New York Times's celebrated Obituary News Department, she wrote the front-page public sendoffs of some of the leading cultural figures of our age. Winner of the William Saroyan Prize for Literature and author of three previous books, "Conan Doyle for the Defense," "The Riddle of the Labyrinth" and "Talking Hands," Fox lives in Manhattan with her husband, the writer and critic George Robinson.
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Memorable Moments a Century After the First Spelling Bee

From the first winning word (gladiolus) to the use of fast-paced spell-offs, the Scripps National Spelling Bee has endured for 100 years.
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Memorable Moments a Century After the First Spelling Bee

From the first winning word (gladiolus) to the use of fast-paced spell-offs, the Scripps National Spelling Bee has endured for 100 years.
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“After all, solving a jigsaw puzzle is no fun, if you know what the picture is in advance.”
― Margalit Fox, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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“Looking back, one can almost imagine them stalking through the wild with specimen bottles and outsize nets, in determined pursuit of the Ojibwa adverb or the Cherokee pronoun.”
― Margalit Fox, Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind
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“A scholar’s worst enemy is his own mind. Facts are slippery things. Almost anything can be proved with them, if they are correctly selected. . . .”
― Margalit Fox, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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