Megan Marshall

Megan Marshall is the author of three biographies: The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography; Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction and the Pulitzer Prize in Biography; and Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, a finalist for the Christian Gauss Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor at Emerson College where she teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program. A past president of the Society of American Historians, Marshall received the 2022 BIO (Biographers International Organization) Award for “contributions to the advancement of the art and craft of biography.”