After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart

Megan Marshall's innovative books, includingThe Peabody Sistersand the Pulitzer Prize-winningMargaret Fuller, are treasured works of American biography.In the richly absorbing essays ofAfter Lives, Marshall turns her narrative gift to her ownart,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 c...