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
