After lives : on biography and the mysteries of the human heart

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 and life, reinventing the personal essay form as a portal to the past with lessons for living into the future. The book's brilliant, assured interplay between memoir and biography places surpr...