Join us for a talk by Pulitzer-prize winning author Megan Marshall on Sunday, April 3 at 6:00 pm.

Megan Marshall’s first publications were book reviews in The New Republic. She has written on American history and literature and women’s history in publications including the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times Book Review, Slate, and the London Review of Books.

Her first biography, The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, 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. Marshall spent twenty years researching and writing the book, traveling to archives in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Virginia, Ohio, California, and Washington, D.C., and finding answers to longstanding mysteries in the Peabody and Hawthorne families.

Marshall’s second biography, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, a character-driven narrative grounded in fact that tests the boundaries of the form, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Biography in 2014 and the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction. She lectures widely on the art of biography, research methods, and the lives and times of her subjects.

Marshall was a visiting professor at Kyoto University in fall 2017, and the Gilder Lehrman Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library in 2014-15. She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She teaches nonfiction writing and archival research in the MFA creative writing program at Emerson College where she has been named the first Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor. An elected Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, she is the 2020-2021 president of the Society of American Historians. She lives in Belmont, Massachusetts, midway between Boston and Concord, locations that figure prominently in her subjects’ lives.

This talk precedes a concert at the Umbrella Center at 7pm, presented by The Boston Cecilia. For more information on the concert, please visit https://www.bostoncecilia.org/winter-concert-2022.