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About Megan Marshall
SCHOLAR, WRITER, BIOGRAPHER, REBINDER
Megan Marshall is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, scholar, and the Charles Wesley Emerson Professor of Creative Writing at Emerson College in Boston. Her acclaimed works include biographies of Margaret Fuller and the Peabody sisters—who were intimately connected to Hawthorne’s world. Marshall first encountered The Scarlet Letter as a high school student in California, and the novel’s complex portrayal of a resilient woman navigating societal constraints inspired her own career path as a chronicler of American lives.
Selections of Megan Marshall’s Published Work
- After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
- The Peabody Sisters
- Margaret Full: A New American Life
- Three Roads Back
- The Blood of San Gennaro
- Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings
Megan Marshall’s Accolades
- 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography and Autobiography
- 2022 BIO Award
- 2006 Francis Parkman Prize
- 2006-2007 Harvard Radcliffee Institute Fellow
Megan Marshall In The News
- The New York Times: How Do You Like Your History?
- The Great Books Podcast: The Writings of Margaret Fuller
- The New Yorker: The Best Books We Read This Week
Marshall brings unique insight to Hawthorne’s classic through her extensive research into 19th-century New England, including the author’s marriage to Sophia Peabody. Her perspective as a female scholar examining a male author’s depiction of a female protagonist adds a valuable dimension to the reading experience. With Marshall as your guide, discover the historical nuances, personal connections, and enduring questions that make The Scarlet Letter not just a required reading assignment but a genuinely transformative literary journey.
“There is something uncommonly bold about The Scarlet Letter—it gives us a heroine who owns her actions and takes responsibility for them, while showing us the cost of failing to do so.”
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