Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/30/2015
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Location
Allendale Branch - Pasadena Library
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Pasadena Public Library’s Allendale Branch is pleased to welcome home the 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography Megan Marshall who returns to her hometown of Pasadena for a discussion and reading of her winning book, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life.
A compelling examination of the trailblazing 19th century author, journalist, and women’s rights advocate, Margaret Fuller, wrote Dwight Garner in his New York Times book review “is as seductive as it is impressive . . . [and] pushes Ms. Marshall into the front rank of American biographers.”
Marshall, who lives in Belmont, Massachusetts, is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor at Emerson College in Boston, where she teaches nonfiction writing and archival research in the MFA program. During her formative years in Pasadena, Marshall was a patron of both the Allendale Branch and Pasadena Central Libraries, where she developed and fostered her love of reading and writing, and where she first discovered the literature of Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville, and other 19th century writers who drew her to attend college in New England.
Copies of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, as well as Marshall’s first award-winning biography, The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, will be available for purchase and signing.
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