Special for Women’s History Month: The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of celebrated American women Margaret Fuller, the Peabody Sisters, and Elizabeth Bishop, presents her own life and work. Don’t miss hearing from Megan Marshall, the "gifted storyteller” (New Yorker) at “the front rank of American biographers” (New York Times), her presentation and conversation with fellow biographer Janice Nimura.

Megan Marshall is known and celebrated for treasured works of American biography, her keen understanding of women in history and their creative works. Now, in this richly absorbing collection of essays, she turns her narrative gift to her own art, life, and the people in it, including her family, whom she left in California for a life in New England. In After Lives, she reinvents the personal essay form as a portal to the past and its lessons for living into the future. Join us and moderator Janice Nimura to learn more about Marshall’s winning method for writing biographies, her passion for chasing facts and family information, and her exploration of the mysteries of the human heart.

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.

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