Margot Clark-Junkins attended Mount Holyoke College and holds a Masters degree in Curatorial Studies. She has worked as a photo editor, independent curator, art educator, and contributing writer for The Rye Record. She is a co-founder of Watershed Literary Festival in Rye, NY.
In 2019, Clark-Junkins embarked on a major project to assemble and contextualize the “lost” WWII dispatches of war correspondent Sidney A. Olson, who was a senior editor at Time Inc. from 1939 to
1950. The dispatches are searing eyewitness accounts of war and, collectively, they serve as a stark reminder that we must not let history repeat itself. To accompany the forthcoming book, as yet untitled (Rowman & Littlefield 2024), Clark-Junkins has begun a Substack column about Olson’s extraordinary career, which also included positions as White House correspondent for The Washington Post, screenwriter at Paramount Pictures, and a 20-year career as an advertising creative on Madison Avenue during the “Mad Men” era.