Margaret Fuller

<p>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography</p><p>"Thoroughly absorbing lively . . . Fuller so misunderstood in life richly deserves the nuanced compassionate portrait Marshall paints." --<em> Boston Globe</em></p><p>Pulitzer Prize winner Megan Marshall recounts the trailblazing life of Margaret Fuller: Thoreau's first editor Emerson's close friend daring war correspondent tragic heroine. After her untimely death in a shipwreck off Fire Island the sense and passion of her life's work were eclipsed by scandal. Marshall's inspired narrative brings her back to indelible life.</p><p>Whether detailing her front-page <em>New-York Tribune</em> editorials against poor conditions in the city's prisons and mental hospitals or illuminating her late-in-life hunger for passionate experience--including a secret affair with a young officer in the Roman Guard--Marshall's biography gives the most thorough and compassionate view of an extraordinary woman. No biography of Fuller has made her ideas so alive or her life so moving.</p><p>"Megan Marshall's brilliant <em>Margaret Fuller</em> brings us as close as we are ever likely to get to this astonishing creature. She rushes out at us from her nineteenth century always several steps ahead inspiring heartbreaking magnificent." -- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein author of <em>Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity</em></p><p>"Shaping her narrative like a novel Marshall brings the reader as close as possible to Fuller's inner life and conveys the inspirational power she has achieved for several generations of women." --<em> New Republic</em></p>