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Are We Entering a New Golden Age of Biography?

Are We Entering a New Golden Age of Biography?

Megan Marshall on a Trio of Blockbuster Books About Gertrude Stein, James Baldwin, and Peter Matthiessen

By Megan Marshall | September 25, 2025

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

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

Megan Marshall on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Family, Edmund Spenser, and Biographical Lies

By Megan Marshall | February 12, 2025

Reconsidering Thoreau in a Burning World

Reconsidering Thoreau in a Burning World

Megan Marshall on Living Through Loss in the California Wildfires

By Megan Marshall | October 29, 2021

Remembering Lois Palken Rudnick, a Biographer Who Never Stopped Exploring

Remembering Lois Palken Rudnick, a Biographer Who Never Stopped Exploring

Megan Marshall Honors Her Late Friend

By Megan Marshall | September 13, 2021

After My Partner's Death, I Discovered the Full Richness of His Poetry

After My Partner's Death, I Discovered the Full Richness of His Poetry

Megan Marshall Remembers Scott Harney

By Megan Marshall | October 21, 2020

In His Life and Writing, Robert D. Richardson Was Precise and Compassionate

In His Life and Writing, Robert D. Richardson Was Precise and Compassionate

Megan Marshall on the Great Thoreau and Emerson Biographer

By Megan Marshall | July 10, 2020

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What My Grandfather Saw Photographing the 1919 Typhus Epidemic in Poland

By Megan Marshall | May 29, 2020