Friday, March 28, 2025
Become a Patron!“You can’t think of anything more pleasing, I guess, to a biographer, than that they would be able to look in the coffin of their subject, but I did,” says Megan Marshall, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 for Margaret Fuller: A New American Life. Her latest book, After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart (Mariner Books) takes a more personal turn.
She’s also the author of Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast and The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism (a Pulitzer finalist).
This was a great talk about biography, research, and what Megan related to most from the women she wrote about. It was a really fun and engaging chat about the writing of biography and when the shape of it reveals itself to her.
Be sure to snag the companion podstack here so you may check out full transcripts and other podcast ephemera.
