Megan Marshall
Megan Marshall is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller. She is also the author of The Peabody Sisters, which won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006, and of 2017's Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast. She is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor and teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College. Most recently, Megan edited...See more
Megan Marshall is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller. She is also the author of The Peabody Sisters, which won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006, and of 2017's Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast. She is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor and teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College. Most recently, Megan edited The Blood of San Gennaro by her late partner Scott Harney, published by Arrowsmith Press. See less
Megan Marshall's Featured Books
Megan Marshall book reviews
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The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
Must-Read for Women's Studies Students
This is a very readable, yet erudite and thorough study of the Peabody sisters who lived in the early 19th Century Boston area. Their unusual educational upbringing by their strong-willed mother, ... Read More
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The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
Transcendental landscape
This is a leisurely trip through the world of 19th century New England Transcendendalism, through an account of the interlaced lives of three women who were sisters and engergizers of the men in ... Read More