Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography "Thoroughly absorbing, lively .
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity "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." New Republic ".
She rushes out at us from her nineteenth century, always several steps ahead, inspiring, heartbreaking, magnificent.
Megan Marshall s brilliant Margaret Fuller brings us as close as we are ever likely to get to this astonishing creature.
No biography of Fuller has made her ideas so alive or her Life so moving.
Whether detailing her front-page New-York Tribune 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.
Marshall s inspired narrative brings her back to indelible life.
After her untimely death in a shipwreck off Fire Island, the sense and passion of her Life s work were eclipsed by scandal.
Fuller, so misunderstood in life, richly deserves the nuanced, compassionate portrait Marshall paints." Boston Globe 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. . .
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography "Thoroughly absorbing, lively
