Megan Marshall ’77 Wins Pulitzer for Biography

Damrosch, O’Brien, and Adams named finalists.

Megan Marshall

Megan Marshall ’77, RI ’07, has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for biography for Margaret Fuller: A New American Life,  an account of the nineteenth-century Cambridge-born author, journalist, critic, and pioneering advocate of women’s rights who died with her Italian revolutionary husband and infant son in a shipwreck on her return from Europe. (For more information on Marshall, read “The Allure of the Bad Boy,” from our May-June 2005 issue, as well as  “Margaret Fuller: Saying in the 19th Century What Still Needs to Be Said” from Radcliffe Magazine. Also listen to a podcast featuring a reading from her book here.)

Several alumni and faculty are among the finalists for this year’s prizes:

See the full list of winners and finalists here.

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