Prior to joining Vanity Fair he was a legal affairs reporter at The New York Times, where he wrote the weekly “At the Bar" column and covered the trials of O.J.
Margolick is also the author of Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock, a study of the principal figures in the iconic photograph from the 1957 school desegregation crisis and published in October 2011 by Yale University Press.
In July 2011 his long-form article A Predator Priest, about a family's long quest to bring a pedophile priest from Margolick's hometown of Putnam, Connecticut, to justice was posted on Kindle Singles.
An article he authored for The New York Times on the Community Concert series [2] includes significant discussion of his mother's work for the program and photos he took of classical music performers who came to Putnam, Connecticut, as a child.
His prior books include Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink, published by Knopf in 2005; Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song (2001); At the Bar: The Passions and Peccadillos of American Lawyers (1995); and Undue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune (1994).