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Megan Marshall

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


An American Faerie Queene: The Uncertain Lives of Nathaniel and Una Hawthorne

Megan Marshall on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Family, Edmund Spenser, and Biographical Lies
February 12, 2025  By Megan Marshall
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Reconsidering Thoreau in a Burning World

Megan Marshall on Living Through Loss in the California Wildfires
October 29, 2021  By Megan Marshall
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Remembering Lois Palken Rudnick, a Biographer Who Never Stopped Exploring

Megan Marshall Honors Her Late Friend
September 13, 2021  By Megan Marshall
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After My Partner’s Death, I Discovered the Full Richness of His Poetry

Megan Marshall Remembers Scott Harney
October 21, 2020  By Megan Marshall
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In His Life and Writing, Robert D. Richardson Was Precise and Compassionate

Megan Marshall on the Great Thoreau and Emerson Biographer
July 10, 2020  By Megan Marshall
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What My Grandfather Saw Photographing the 1919 Typhus Epidemic in Poland

Joe T. Marshall Went From Harvard to the Red Cross
May 29, 2020  By Megan Marshall
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