{"product_id":"margaret-fuller-a-new-american-life-a-pulitzer-prize-winner-paperback","title":"Margaret Fuller: A New American Life: A Pulitzer Prize Winner - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMegan Marshall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Thoroughly absorbing, lively . . . Fuller, so misunderstood in life, richly deserves the nuanced, compassionate portrait Marshall paints.\" --\u003cem\u003e Boston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePulitzer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether detailing her front-page \u003cem\u003eNew-York Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Megan Marshall's brilliant \u003cem\u003eMargaret Fuller\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eBetraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" --\u003cem\u003e New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThoroughly absorbing, lively . . . Fuller, so misunderstood in life, richly deserves the nuanced, compassionate portrait Marshall paints. \u003ci\u003e Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003ePulitzer Prize finalist 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. Whether detailing her front-page \u003ci\u003eNew-York Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \"Megan Marshall s brilliant \u003ci\u003eMargaret Fuller\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBetraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e \"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.\" \u003ci\u003e New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e MEGAN MARSHALL is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller, and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Peabody Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMEGAN MARSHALL is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Peabody Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e. A recipient of Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, Marshall teaches in the MFA program at Emerson College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.31 x 8.13 x 5.27 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978505093421,"sku":"9780544245617","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/bUJKT3dSa0ZPWEc0WU5vLzNyejV6dz09.webp?v=1775805523","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/margaret-fuller-a-new-american-life-a-pulitzer-prize-winner-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}