2010 Presenters
Megan Marshall
Megan Marshall's biography The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism (2005) won the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians; the Mark Lynton History Prize, awarded by the Anthony Lukas Prize Project jointly sponsored by the Columbia School of Journalism and Harvard's Nieman Foundation, the Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography and memoir. She has published numerous essays and reviews in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Slate Online, The New York Times Book Review, The London Review of Books, The New Republic, The Boston Review, and elsewhere.
Marshall has been the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and she has been a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society since 1991. During 2006-2007 she was a fellow in creative nonfiction writing at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University where she began researching a biography of Elizabeth (Ebe) Hawthorne, Nathaniel's brilliant and reclusive older sister. She is currently at work on a biographical study of Margaret Fuller. She teaches narrative nonfiction writing and the art of archival research for the MFA program at Emerson College.
LINKS:
Publisher's biography of Marshall
Marshall discusses reading the Peabody sisters' letter in Slate Magazine
Marshall gives a lecture on the Peabody sisters on WGBH radio
