"Megan
Marshall's brilliant Margaret Fuller brings us as close as we are ever
likely to get to this astonishing creature. She rushes out at us from
her nineteenth century, always several steps ahead, inspiring,
heartbreaking, magnificent." Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
"Megan Marshall gives new meaning to close reading—from words on a page she conjures a fantastically rich inner life, a meld of body, mind, and soul. Drawing on the letters and diaries of Margaret Fuller and her circle, she has brought us a brave, visionary, sensual, tough-minded intellectual, a ‘first woman’ who was unique yet stood for all women. A masterful achievement by a great American writer and scholar.”
Evan Thomas, author of Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World
Megan Marshall is the author of The Peabody Sisters, which won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography and memoir. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, and Slate. A recipient of Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, Marshall teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College.
Event date:
Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 7:00pm
Event address:
Porter Square Shopping Center
25 White Street
02140 Cambridge
us