The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of celebrated American women, Megan Marshall has been hailed as a “gifted storyteller” (New Yorker) at “the front rank of American biographers” (New York Times).
Join us to hear about her latest work “After Lives: On Biography and Mysteries of the Human Heart” and gain insight from her discussion with fellow biographer Janice Nimura. Don’t miss their conversation about remarkable women in history and their own lives and work. Special for Women’s History Month.
Megan Marshall is the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning “Margaret Fuller: A New American Life” as well as “Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast” and “The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism,” a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor of Nonfiction Writing at Emerson College and a recipient of the BIO Award, the highest honor given by the Biographers International Organization.
Janice Nimura received a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of her work on “The Doctors Blackwell,” a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Her previous book, “Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back,” was a New York Times Notable book in 2015. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in such publications as the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and Smithsonian. She is currently a Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University.
