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A moving and penetrating memoir of a life in biography from the Pulitzer Prize winner and "gifted storyteller" (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker). Megan Marshall's innovative books, including The Peabody Sisters and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Margaret Fuller, are treasured works of American biography. In the richly absorbing essays of After Lives, Marshall turns her narrative gift to her own art, life, and the people in it. In each of six essays, Marshall reinvents the personal essay form, as a portal to the past and its lessons for living into the future. The book's brilliant, assured interplay between memoir and biography places surprising characters on the page, including the twelfth-century Buddhist hermit Kamo no Chomei, a reassuring spiritual presence for Marshall during several otherwise deracinating months in Kyoto. In her stunning coming-of-age tale, "Free for a While," set in 1970s California, Marshall interweaves the story of her...

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Author

Megan Marshall

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2025

Language

EN

ISBN

9780618684182

Category

nonfiction