Margaret Fuller A New American Life: a Pulitzer Prize Winner

Name: Margaret Fuller A New American Life: a Pulitzer Prize Winner
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ISBN: 9780544245617

ISBN-10: 054424561X

ISBN-13: 9780544245617

Edition: 2014

Authors: Megan Marshall

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/4/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

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 www.meganmarshallauthor.com .