Megan Marshall

writer

Megan Marshall is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, and The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Her biographies have been awarded numerous prizes. A past president of the Society of American Historians, she is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor at Emerson College where she teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program. Her new essay collection, After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart, will be published in February 2025.