Megan Marshall

Margaret Fuller (eBook, ePUB)

A New American Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

From an early age, Margaret Fuller provoked and dazzled New England's intellectual elite. Her famous Conversations changed women's sense of how they could think and live; her editorship of the Transcendentalist literary journal the Dial shaped American Romanticism. Now, Megan Marshall, whose acclaimed The Peabody Sisters discovered three fascinating women, has done it again: no biography of Fuller has made her ideas so alive or her life so moving. Marshall tells the story of how Fuller, tired of Boston, accepted Horace Greeley's offer to be the New-York Tribune's front-page columnist. The move unleashed a crusading concern for the urban poor and the plight of prostitutes, and a late-in-life hunger for passionate experience. In Italy as a foreign correspondent, Fuller took a secret lover, a young officer in the Roman Guard; she wrote dispatches on the brutal 1849 Siege of Rome; and she gave birth to a son. Yet, when all three died in a shipwreck off Fire Island shortly after Fuller's fortieth birthday, the sense and passion of her life's work were eclipsed by tragedy and scandal. Marshall's inspired account brings an American heroine back to indelible life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547523620
• Artikelnr.: 39887891

Autorenporträt

MEGAN MARSHALL is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller, and the author of The Peabody Sisters, which won the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College. For more, visit .

Rezensionen

Boston Globe besteller "Fuller's was a great life, flush with drama, and Megan Marshall's new biography rises to it in ways small and large . . . This one pitches Ms. Marshall into the front rank of American biographers . . . Margaret Fuller' is as seductive as it is impressive. It has the grain and emotional amplitude of a serious novel, especially in its first half. It delivers a lovely and bumpy coming-of-age story, one of the best such stories 19th-century America has to offer. Now that the new season of 'Girls' is winding down, this book is an entertainment that ambitious and literate young women should turn their attention toward . . . In Ms. Marshall, Fuller has found what feels like her ideal biographer."- Dwight Garner, New York Times "Thoroughly absorbing, lively . . . Fuller, so misunderstood in life, richly deserves the nuanced, compassionate portrait Marshall paints."- Boston Globe "Fascinating, and well-researched . . should help to remedy Fuller's obscurity . . . It is Marshall's prescient reading of Fuller's life that makes this book worthy of its subject."- Daily Beast "[Marshall] inhabits Fuller's dramatic, oft-told story with unique intimacy by virtue of her fluency in and judicious quoting of Fuller's extraordinarily vivid letters . . . . A magnificent biography of a revolutionary thinker, witness, and writer."- Booklist STARRED review "A lively, intuitive study of a remarkable American character."- Kirkus Reviews "The book's success comes from the way that Marshall allows the reader to understand and empathize with Fuller in her plight."- Publishers Weekly