After Lives: A Biographer's Memoir

by Megan Marshall

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780358734963
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	02/15/2025
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256

About the Author

Megan Marshall is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, and Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, her work has been awarded the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and the BIO Award, the highest honor given by the Biographers International Organization to a writer who has advanced the art and craft of biography. Marshall is Charles Wesley Emerson Professor of writing, literature, and publishing at Emerson College.

Editorial Reviews

A beautifully constructed book that captures the color of Elizabeth Bishop’s life—melancholy and ecstatic, anchored by whiskey and words, by turns New England grim and toucan-vibrant-on-the-page. Marshall performs her own miracle: Here is how poetry gets written.” — Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Véra, Cleopatra, and The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, on Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast

“Margaret Fuller is as seductive as it is impressive. It has the grain and emotional amplitude of a serious novel…[and] pushes Ms. Marshall into the front rank of American biographers.” — Dwight Garner, New York Times, on Margaret Fuller: A New American Life

“[A] stunning work of biography and intellectual history. [The author] performs the intellectual equivalent of a triple axel. She manages to creative vivid portraits of three distinct, and distinctly engaging, personalities, placing them at the center of the seismic disturbances associated with writers like Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau.” — William Grimes, New York Times, on The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

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