Margaret Fuller - by Megan Marshall (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography</p><p>The award-winning author of <i>The Peabody Sisters</i> takes a fresh look at the trailblazing life of a great American heroine--Thoreau's first editor, Emerson's close friend, first female war correspondent, passionate advocate of personal and political freedom.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography</p><p>"Thoroughly absorbing, lively . . . Fuller, so misunderstood in life, richly deserves the nuanced, compassionate portrait Marshall paints." --<i> Boston Globe</i></p><p>Pulitzer Prize winner Megan Marshall recounts the trailblazing life of Margaret Fuller: Thoreau's first editor, Emerson's close friend, daring war correspondent, tragic heroine. After her untimely death in a shipwreck off Fire Island, the sense and passion of her life's work were eclipsed by scandal. Marshall's inspired narrative brings her back to indelible life.</p><p>Whether detailing her front-page <i>New-York Tribune</i> editorials against poor conditions in the city's prisons and mental hospitals, or illuminating her late-in-life hunger for passionate experience--including a secret affair with a young officer in the Roman Guard--Marshall's biography gives the most thorough and compassionate view of an extraordinary woman. No biography of Fuller has made her ideas so alive or her life so moving.</p><p>"Megan Marshall's brilliant <i>Margaret Fuller</i> 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 <i>Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity</i></p><p>"Shaping her narrative like a novel, Marshall brings the reader as close as possible to Fuller's inner life and conveys the inspirational power she has achieved for several generations of women." --<i> New Republic</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>"Thoroughly absorbing, lively . . . Fuller, so misunderstood in life, richly deserves the nuanced, compassionate portrait Marshall paints." <i> Boston Globe</i> </p></p>Pulitzer Prize finalist Megan Marshall recounts the trailblazing life of Margaret Fuller: Thoreau s first editor, Emerson s close friend, daring war correspondent, tragic heroine. After her untimely death in a shipwreck off Fire Island, the sense and passion of her life s work were eclipsed by scandal. Marshall s inspired narrative brings her back to indelible life. </p></p>Whether detailing her front-page <i>New-York Tribune</i> editorials against poor conditions in the city s prisons and mental hospitals, or illuminating her late-in-life hunger for passionate experience including a secret affair with a young officer in the Roman Guard Marshall s biography gives the most thorough and compassionate view of an extraordinary woman. No biography of Fuller has made her ideas so alive or her life so moving. </p></p>"Megan Marshall s brilliant <i>Margaret Fuller</i> 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 <i>Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity</i> </p></p>"Shaping her narrative like a novel, Marshall brings the reader as close as possible to Fuller s inner life and conveys the inspirational power she has achieved for several generations of women." <i> New Republic</i> </p></p>MEGAN MARSHALL is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller, and the author of <i>The Peabody Sisters</i>, which won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College. For more, visit www.meganmarshallauthor.com."<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>MEGAN MARSHALL is the author of <i>The Peabody Sisters</i>, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in <i>The New Yorker</i>, the <i>Atlantic</i>, the <i>New York Times Book Review</i>, and <i>Slate</i>. A recipient of Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, Marshall teaches in the MFA program at Emerson College.
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