Margo Jefferson at Ocean State Summer Writing Conference Friday, June 24, 4:45 p.m. at Swan Hall, 60 Upper College Road in Kingston, free and open to the public. Margo Jefferson is a cultural critic and the author of two books, On Michael Jackson and Negroland: A Memoir, for which she received the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography. Jefferson won a 1995 Pulitzer for criticism for her work at The New York Times.