Megan Marshall is the author of three biographical works and the essay collection After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart.  She is the co-editor of Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings, published by the Library of America.  Her first biography, The Peabody Sisters, won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, which Margaret Fuller: A New American Life won in 2014.  Both books received the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction. Her third biography, Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, was a finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Christian Gauss Award in Literary Scholarship.  She is the Charles Wesley Emerson Professor Emerita at Emerson College, a recipient of the Walter Harding Distinguished Service Award from the Thoreau Society and the BIO Award for contributions to the art and craft of biography. 

A Flowering of New England Women:  Megan Marshall on Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings and The Peabody Sisters

Saturday, October 25, 2025

7:00 - 8:30 PM

Followed by a reception and book signing in the Parish Hall

First Parish
20 Lexington Road, Concord

Join Megan Marshall for a discussion of the first Library of America volume devoted to Margaret Fuller, which Marshall co-edited, and the much-beloved The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, her first biography—a book that took twenty years to write and is still in print twenty years after its publication in 2005. How has Marshall’s understanding of these fascinating women, all with Concord connections, developed over forty years in the field? What are some of her most memorable discoveries? Bring your own questions too!