Winter Readings At Lesley University with Megan Marshall
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Location:
Marran Theater
34 Mellen St
Cambridge, MA 02144
The Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Megan Marshall is the visiting writer in creative nonfiction. She is the author of the forthcoming Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, which combines biography and memoir in a narrative devoted to the poet who was also Marshall’s teacher. Marshall’s first biography, The Peabody Sisters, was awarded the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her second, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014; she received the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction for both books. Marshall is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor at Emerson College, where she teaches nonfiction narrative and the art of archival research in the MFA Creative Writing Program.
Admission:
Free