I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

C. Talbot is married to writer Camille Peri co-editor of the national bestseller Mothers Who Think with whom he has two children. He is also the brother of documentary producer and former child actor Stephen Talbot doctor Cynthia Talbot of Portland Oregon and journalist Margaret Talbot a staff writer at The New Yorker.

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Talbot has worked as a senior editor for Mother Jones magazine and a features editor for the San Francisco Examiner and has written for Time Magazine The New Yorker Rolling Stone and other publications. com. Talbot founded Salon in 1995 when the web was still in its infancy and is considered one of the pioneers of online journalism.