EVENTS

2025

January 11 – 3:30-4:45 PM – LOUISIANA
“Collaborations: Editing, Publishing, and Recovering Texts”
Roundtable discussion with Megan Marshall, Brigitte Bailey, Noelle A. Baker (co-editors of Margaret Fuller: Collected Writings, Library of America, 2025), and Corey Risinger
Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention
New Orleans
Registration required

February 12 – 7:00 PM – Massachusetts
After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart launch reading
In conversation with Maggie Doherty
Harvard Bookstore
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge

February 19,  details TBA – Massachusetts
Emerson College Faculty/Alumni reading
Megan Marshall on After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
Kim Liao, MFA ’09, on Where Every Ghost Has a Name: A Memoir of Taiwanese Independence

March 5 – 7:00 PM – Massachusetts Hybrid Event
After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
Megan Marshall in conversation with John Kaag
Concord Museum
53 Cambridge Turnpike
Concord
Registration details forthcoming

March 12 –  6:00 PM – Massachusetts
After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
Boston Athenaeum
10-1/2 Beacon Street
Boston
Registration details forthcoming

March 19 – 6-7 PM – Virtual event
After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
Megan Marshall in conversation with Janice Nimura
American Inspiration Series
Registration details forthcoming

March 20 – 5:00 PM – Massachusetts Hybrid Event
After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
Megan Marshall in conversation with John Stauffer
New England Biography Series
In-person reception at 4:15 PM
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston
Registration details forthcoming

April 1 – 7:00 PM – Massachusetts
Reading and conversation with Megan Marshall and Nicole Graev Lipson
After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart (Marshall)
Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays (Lipson)
Newtonville Books
10 Langley Road
Newton

April 24 – 7:00 PM – Massachusetts
After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart
Megan Marshall in conversation with Tom Perrotta
Belmont Books
79 Leonard Street
Belmont

May 5 – 3:00 PM – Massachusetts
Meet Scott Harney
Staged reading of original play by Megan Marshall
Performed by Marshall and David Gullette, Literary Director of The Poets Theatre
Sponsored by Poetry at the Library Series and The Poets Theatre
Concord Free Public Library
129 Main Street
Concord

June 6 – time TBA – WASHINGTON, D.C.
“Ten Years and Counting: Learning to Live with your Biography,”
Panel discussion among Megan Marshall, Tamara Payne, and Lance Richardson
Moderated by Carla Kaplan
Biographers International Organization (BIO) annual conference
National Press Club
529 14th Street NW
Washington, D.C.
Registration details forthcoming

PAST EVENTS

2024

May 17, 11:30 AM – New York
Panel discussion on “Merging Biography and Memoir”
Biographers International Organization 2024 Conference
CUNY Grad Center
Conference registration required

June 17, 6:30-8PM – Massachusetts
Megan Marshall in conversation with Gary Graham, dress designer
Learn about Graham’s “TNAMURYA” line of women’s clothing inspired by the women of The Old Manse
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
51 Sandy Pond Road
Lincoln
Registration required

June 18 , 7PM – Massachusetts
Megan Marshall in conversation with Natalie Dykstra, author of Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Harvard Bookstore
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge

September 9, 6-7 PM – Virtual Event
Megan Marshall in conversation with John Kaag, author of American Bloods
American Inspiration Series
Sponsored by American Ancestors
Registration required

October 17, 6-7:30 PM –  South Carolina
Dreams, Lies and Love Songs: An Evening of Poetry and Song
Megan Marshall narrates and Soprano Sarah Chalfy sings
song settings by Scott Wheeler, with Wheeler at the piano
Charleston Library Society
164 King Street, Charleston
Registration required

October 26 – Massachusetts
Boston Book Festival
Megan Marshall moderates panel discussion with authors:
Lori Ginzberg Tangled Journeys
John Kaag American Bloods
Robert G. Parkinson Heart of American Darkness
Boston Public Library
Details TBA

October 30, 6-7:30 PM – Massachusetts Hybrid Event
Joel Myerson Annual Lecture
Megan Marshall, Brigitte Bailey, and Leslie Eckel
“The scrolls of the past burn my fingers”: Reviving Margaret Fuller in the Library of America and Edinburgh Editions
Concord Free Public Library
Concord Festival of Authors
Registration required for both in-person and virtual attendance

November 18, 6-7PM, Massachusetts hybrid event
Megan Marshall in conversation with Stacy Schiff, winner of the William Hickling Prescott Award
for Excellence in Historical Writing
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston
Register here

2023

January 24, 7:30 PM – Virtual Event
Megan Marshall in conversation with Lawrence Buell
About Robert D. Richardson’s Three Roads Back:
How Thoreau, Emerson, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses in Their Lives
Event sponsored by Henry David Thoreau Society

January 26, 7:00 PM – Massachusetts
Megan Marshall in conversation with John Kaag
About Robert D. Richardson’s Three Roads Back:
How Thoreau, Emerson, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses in Their Lives
Harvard Bookstore
1256 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge

February 2, 5:00 PM – Virtual event
“Difficult Subjects:  How to Handle Them?”
Panel discussion moderated by Megan Marshall
With writers Benjamin Anastas, Linda Hirshman, and Alec Nevala-Lee
New England Biography Series event
Massachusetts Historical Society

April 8, 5 PM – Massachusetts
Meet Scott Harney
Megan Marshall’s one-act play based on the life and poetry of Scott Harney
Starring Megan Marshall and David Gullette
With occasional music by lutenist Matthew Wright
Sponsored by The Poets’ Theatre and Mount Auburn Cemetery
Bigelow Chapel
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Cambridge

April 27, 6:30-8:30 PM– Massachusetts
Megan Marshall delivers the first annual Joel Myerson Memorial Lecture
Concord Free Public Library
129 Main Street
Concord
Registration

April 29, 1:00 and 3:00 PM– Massachusetts
Megan Marshall interviews Alice Wohl on As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy
And speaks on Robert Richardson’s posthumous Three Roads Back
Newburyport Literary Festival
Central Congregational Church Sanctuary
14 Titcomb Street
Newburyport

May 20 – New York
Megan Marshall moderates panel discussion, “Secrets and Lives”
Featuring biographers Paul Fisher, Ruth Franklin, and Abigail Santamaria
Biographers International Organization Annual Conference
CUNY Grad Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York City
Conference registration required for attendance

June 1, 7 PM– Massachusetts
“Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop in Cambridge”
A conversation among Martin Edmunds, Megan Marshall, and Lloyd Schwartz, with Frank Bidart appearing by Zoom, moderated by John Okrent
Sponsored by Arrowsmith Press and Grolier Poetry Book Shop
offsite at 113 Brattle Street
Cambridge
Register here for Zoom or in person attendance

September 27, 7PM – Massachusetts, hybrid event
Megan Marshall introduces the poets Grace Schulman and Jeffrey Harrison
Grolier Poetry Book Shop reading series
6 Plympton Street
Cambridge
Registration required
In person | virtual

September 30, 6PM – Massachusetts
Megan Marshall joins other writers in memorial reading to celebrate the life and work of Victoria Amelina
Sponsored by Brookline Booksmith, Arrowsmith Press and Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University
279 Harvard Street
Brookline

October 12, 7PM – Massachusetts, hybrid event
Megan Marshall in conversation with Lawrence Buell
Author of Henry David Thoreau: Thinking Disobediently
American Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury Street
Worcester
Registration required

October 26, 5PM – Massachusetts, hybrid event
“From Mecklenburgh Square to Radcliffe Yard and Beyond:
A conversation with Francesca Wade and Maggie Doherty”
Moderated by Megan Marshall
New England Biography Series
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston
Registration required

2022

January 21, 2pm – Virtual Event
“Meet Scott Harney”: A Zoom play in One Act
Featuring Megan Marshall and David Gullette
Poets’ Theatre – Harvard Learning In Retirement

February 24, 5:15 pm, Virtual Event
“Talking Headstones:  What biographers learn from visiting their subjects’ graves”
Panel discussion among Megan Marshall, Julie Dobrow, and Natalie Dykstra
New England Biography Series
Massachusetts Historical Society
Registration information

March 7, 7pm – Virtual Event
“Meet Scott Harney”
A Zoom dramatic production by the Poets’ Theatre
Featuring Megan Marshall and David Gullette
Program: Harvard Reunion Classes of ’62 and ‘77

April 23, luncheon talk – private event
Saturday Morning Club 150th anniversary

May 14 – virtual event
Megan Marshall receives 2022 BIO Award
and delivers keynote address
Biographers International Organization (BIO) Conference
Registration required

July 6, 3:30pm – Massachusetts
“Recovering and Publishing Women’s Lives”:  panel discussion
NEH Summer Seminar on Transcendentalism
Concord

July 6, 7:30-9pm – Massachusetts
Megan Marshall interviews Robert Gross on
The Transcendentalists and Their World
Thoreau Society Annual Gathering
First Plenary Session
Open to the public
Masonic Lodge
Concord

July 8, 4-6pm – Massachusetts
Screening and discussion of Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic Revolutionary
Megan Marshall and others involved in the film appear for talk-back
Emerson Umbrella
40 Stow Street
Concord
Registration required

September 9, 7PM – Massachusetts
Megan Marshall interviews Alice Sedgwick Wohl
Author of As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy
Harvard Bookstore
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge

October 2, 7:30 PM – Massachusetts
Seven Times Salt presents “The Thirsty Scholar”
A concert of early music from England and Italy
Dedicated to Scott Harney, whose poems will be read by the musicians throughout the program
Church of the Good Shepherd
9 Russell Avenue
Watertown
Tickets available here

October 23, 2pm – Massachusetts
Lecture on Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Bishop
Groton Historical Society
Groton

November 5, 2PM – Massachusetts
Megan Marshall speaks about writing The Peabody Sisters
First Religious Society Unitarian Universalist
26 Pleasant Street
Newburyport

November 16, 6PM – Massachusetts -- hybrid event
Megan Marshall interviews Lydia Moland
Author of Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston
Register here

December 14, 6PM – Massachusetts
“An Evening of Poetry and Song”
Works for piano and voice by Scott Wheeler,
Including settings of poems by Megan Marshall and Scott Harney
Boston Athenaeum
10-1/2 Beacon Street
Boston
Register here

2021

January 31, 2PM, Virtual Event 
A conversation with authors Holly Jackson (“American Radicals”) and Megan Marshall
The Write Connection
Sponsored by Thoreau Farm and Birthplace
Register

February 10, 7PM, Virtual Event
A Celebration of the Life and Work of Elizabeth Bishop
Discussion with Megan Marshall and Lloyd Schwartz
Maynard Public Library
Advance registration required

March 25, 5:15-6:30 PM, Virtual Event
Marriage of Minds or Boston Divorce?
The Lives and Good Works of Caroline Healey Dall and Rev. Charles Appleton Dall on Two Continents
Discussion with Neilesh Bose and Helen Deese, moderated by Megan Marshall
Register

April 5, 7PM, Virtual Event
Poet Gail Mazur in conversation with Megan Marshall
Concord Museum
Register

July 8,  1:30 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Megan Marshall participates in Roundtable discussion on Literary Biography
American Literature Association
Boston

July 8, 7pm, Virtual Event
“Woman Questions 1”
Megan Marshall moderates panel discussion on Margaret Fuller’s influence
Thoreau Society Annual Gathering

July 11, 2:30 – 3:30 pm, Virtual Event
“Women, Diversity, and Reform”
Panel discussion featuring Megan Marshall, Phyllis Cole, and Maria Madison
Sponsored by Orchard House and the Thoreau Society

 October 13, 6pm, Virtual Event
Megan Marshall respondent to paper on Celia Thaxter by Sari Edelstein
American Literature and Culture Seminar
Mahindra Humanities Center
Harvard University

October 16 – 1PM – Virtual Event
Her Socialist Smile, screening of new documentary film about Helen Keller
Megan Marshall moderates discussion with filmmaker John Gianvito and poet Carolyn Forché
New England Biography Series
Massachusetts Historical Society
Register here for the 1pm discussion and to receive a link to view the film during the 24 hours preceding.

October 19, 7pm, Virtual Event
Now Comes Good Sailing:  Essays on Henry David Thoreau and the Meaning of Life
Megan Marshall joins discussion with other contributors
Harvard Bookstore
Register here

October 24 – 7PM – In person event
Now Comes Good Sailing: Essays on Henry David Thoreau and the Meaning of Life
Megan Marshall joins discussion with other contributors
Concord Museum
53 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, MA
Sponsored by Thoreau Society
Register here

October 27, Virtual event
4pm Pacific Time, 7pm Eastern Time
Now Comes Good Sailing: Essays on Henry David Thoreau and the Meaning of Life
Megan Marshall joins discussion with other contributors
Huntington Library
Register here

November 3, Noon, Virtual Event
Meet Scott Harney:  A Zoom Dramatic
Poets Theatre
Megan Marshall and actor-poet David Gullette present the poems of Scott Harney
Tufts Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

November 10, 7pm, Virtual Event
The Silence of Your Name:  The Afterlife of a Suicide
Megan Marshall interviews Alexandra Marshall on her memoir
Harvard Bookstore
Register here

November 18,6pm, Virtual Event
Society of American Historians 2021 Prizewinners
Past SAH president Megan Marshall interviews authors
Christopher Tomlins, Afiya Atakora, and Brianna Nofil
2021 winners of the Francis Parkman Prize, SAH Historical Fiction Prize, and Allan Nevins Prize
Massachusetts Historical Society
Register here

November 30, 7pm, Virtual Event
The Transcendentalists and Their World
Megan Marshall interviews Robert Gross on his new book
Harvard Bookstore
Register here

2020

January 14, Virtual Event, 7:00 to 8:30 PM
Megan Marshall and Lloyd Schwartz read and discuss Scott Harney’s poetry
Salem Athenaeum
Register

January 18 – 2PM – MASSACHUSETTS
“The Enduring Influence of Little Women”
Megan Marshall interviews Anne Boyd Rioux
WBUR CitySpace
890 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston
Tickets required

March 19, 7-9 PM  --  MASSACHUSETTS
An evening on Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry
with Megan Marshall and Lloyd Schwartz
Maynard Public Library
77 Nason Street
Maynard

March 29 – 2:15 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
“Our Transcendental Passion” by Paul John Rudoi, World Premier
Boston Cecelia winter concert, George Case, conductor
Preconcert discussion with Megan Marshall before 3:00 PM performance
All Saints Parish
1773 Beacon Street
Brookline
Tickets required

May 17 – 3:00 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Arrowsmith Press Spring Book Launch
Featuring Scott Harney’s The Blood of San Gennaro: Selected Poems
and new books by Peter Balakian, Kythe Heller, Oksana Zabuzhko
Readings of Harney’s poems by
Gail Mazur, Blake Campbell, Lloyd Schwartz, Andrea Cohen, and Frank Bidart
Introduced by Megan Marshall
First Parish Cambridge
3 Church Street
Cambridge

May 21, Thursday, 6-7PM
“A Walk to the Next World”
Virtual launch reading by Megan Marshall
From Scott Harney’s The Blood of San Gennaro
A Cameo Conversation sponsored by the Boston Athenaeum
Register here by 5PM May 20

June 2, 7-9PM
“Philosophy in Hard Times:  The Meaning and Limits of Self-Reliance”
Megan Marshall in conversation with philosopher John Kaag
Online class at 92Y, New York

October 18, 3PM
Virtual launch celebration for
The Blood of San Gennaro: Selected Poems of Scott Harney
and three other new Arrowsmith Press books
Register here

2019

March 1 – 7PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Book launch for Ray Bolger: More than a Scarecrow
Megan Marshall introduces biographer Holly Van Leuven
Harvard Bookstore
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge

March 21 – 5:30-7:45 PM — MASSACHUSETTS
“Reckless Youth: Three Writers on their (Youthful) Biographical Passions”
Megan Marshall moderates discussion with John Kaag, Abigail Santamaria, and Holly Van Leuven
New England Biography Seminar
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston
Open to the public:  Register here

March 28, 4:30-5:45 PM – OREGON
“Tipping the Scales: Writing Women’s Lives in Biography & Historical Fiction,”
Panel discussion, Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Convention
Oregon Convention Center, C124, Level 1
Portland

April 25 – INDIANA
Bash Memorial Lecture in Modern American Literature
Indiana State University
Terre Haute
Details to be announced

May 18 – time TBA — NEW YORK
“Reckless Youth:  Three Writers on their Youthful (Biographical) Passions”
Megan Marshall moderates panel discussion with Lance Richardson, Abigail Santamaria, and Holly Van Leuven
Biographers International Organization (BIO) Annual Conference
CUNY Grad Center
New York City 

May 20 – 11:30-12:30 — MASSACHUSETTS
Newton Lifetime Learning Distinguished Lecture
Megan Marshall on Margaret Fuller
Temple Shalom
175 Temple Street
Newton

May 23, 7:30-9:00 PM— MASSACHUSETTS
Roundtable Discussion:  “The Old Corner Bookstore—Why Is the Most Important Literary Site in Boston a Fast-Food Court?”
Megan Marshall, Chair
Paul Lewis, John Stauffer, Rosemary Fisk, Brian LeMay, John Kucich
American Literature Association Convention
Westin Copley Place
Essex Center, 3rd Floor
Open to the public

June 16, 3PM – MAINE
Q&A following New Surry Theatre’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s Dear Elizabeth
Blue Hill
Purchase tickets online here

2018

January 7 – NEW YORK
12:00 – 1:15 PM
“The Future(s) of Literary Biography”
Roundtable discussion with Megan Marshall, Carl Rollyson, Elaine Showalter, Anne Boyd Rioux, Katherine Culkin, moderated by Todd Goddard
Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention
New York City

January 17 – MASSACHUSETTS
7:00 PM
Newtonville Books – celebrating Elizabeth Bishop in updated paperback
10 Langley Rd.
Newton

March 15 – FLORIDA
5:30-7:00 PM
Bookstore1Sarasota – author meet & greet
12 S. Palm Ave.
Sarasota

March 21 –  MASSACHUSETTS
7:00 PM – introducing essayist Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough and her collection, Objects of Affection
1256 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge

March 24 – VIRGINIA
4:00 PM
Virginia Festival of the Book
New Dominion Bookshop
494 E Main St.
Charlottesville

March 28 – MASSACHUSETTS
6:30 PM
Megan Marshall interviewed by Natalie Dykstra, author of Clover Adams
Women’s History Month discussion of women’s biography
Waltham Public Library
735 Main Street
Waltham

April 6 – MASSACHUSETTS
7:00-9:00 PM
“No Picture Could Be More Lovely”: Ada Shepard with the Hawthornes in Florence
Exhibition opening and lecture
Concord Free Public Library
129 Main Street
Concord

April 22, noon – MASSACHUSETTS
Annual Authors’ Brunch: Megan Marshall,
Susan L. Mizruchi, Leigh Montville
Claire T. Carney Library Associates
Woodland Commons
UMass Dartmouth
Tickets: $35 msanguinetti@umassd.edu

April 25, 7:00 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Newtonville Books Celebrity Book Club
for National Poetry Month . . .
Megan Marshall leads a discussion of
Elizabeth Bishop’s Geography III
Newtonville Books
10 Langley Road
Newton

May 6, 5:30 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Megan Marshall in conversation with Ann Hulbert, author of Off the Charts: The Hidden Lives and Lessons of American Child Prodigies
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston

May 8 – MASSACHUSETTS
6:30 PM
Reading from Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
South End Branch Library
685 Tremont Street
Boston

May 19, 3-4PM – NEW YORK
“Putting the I in Biography” panel discussion with
Megan Marshall, Rebecca Goldstein, Daniel Mendelsohn, George Prochnik
Moderated by Amanda Vaill
Biographers International Organization (BIO) annual conference
CUNY Grad Center
New York City
(registration required)

JULY 15, 2:30-5PM – MASSACHUSETTS
“Little Women in the 21st Century,” Orchard House Conversational Series
Panelists:  Joel Myerson, Ann Boyd Rioux, John Matteson, Daniel Shealy
Moderator:  Megan Marshall
Trinity Episcopal Church
81 Elm Street
Concord

September 30 – 3 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Megan Marshall introduces John Kaag and his new book Hiking with Nietzsche
Concord Bookshop
65 Main Street
Concord

2017

January 7, 5:15-6:30 PM – PENNSYLVANIA
“Margaret Fuller and the Women of Her Time”
Panel sponsored by Margaret Fuller Society
Marshall will present: “Margaret Fuller’s Conversations: Who Was There?”
MLA Annual Convention
Pennsylvania Convention Center Room 112A
Philadelphia

January 11, 7 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Visiting Writer lecture/reading
Marran Theater
Lesley University, Doble Campus
Mellen Street
Cambridge
open to the public

January 19, 5:30 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
“Publishing Lives,” panel discussion moderated by Megan Marshall
Panelists: Laura Claridge, author of The Lady With the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf
Jill Kneerim, literary agent; Deanne Urmy, Senior Executive Editor, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
New England Biography Seminar winter meeting
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston St.
Boston
Reservations required www.masshist.org

February 7, 7 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Book launch for Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
Harvard Bookstore
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge

February 12, 3 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Concord Bookshop
65 Main Street
Concord

February 16, 7-8 PM – NEW YORK
Megan Marshall in conversation with Rosanna Warren
Conversations from the Cullman Center
New York Public Library
42nd Street and Fifth Avenue
New York City

February 22, 7 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard Street
Brookline

February 24, 7 PM – WASHINGTON, D.C.
Politics & Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, D.C.

February 26, 11AM – NEW YORK
Books & Bagels Literary Reading
92Y Unterberg Poetry Center
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York City
reserve tickets

February 27, 6 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Reel Time:  Elizabeth Bishop
Lecture/reading with recordings of Bishop
Sponsored by Woodberry Poetry Room
Edison Newman Room
Houghton Library
Harvard University
Cambridge
More Info

March 2, 7 PM – CALIFORNIA
Vroman’s Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena

March 7, 6 PM - CALIFORNIA
Book Passage
1 Ferry Building
San Francisco

March 8, 7:30 PM – CALIFORNIA
Mrs. Dalloway’s
2904 College Ave.
Berkeley

March 23, 7:00 pm - MASSACHUSETTS
Newtonville Books
10 Langley Rd., Newton Centre

March 28, 6PM– NEW YORK
“Megan Marshall on Writing Women’s Lives”
NYU Center for the Study of Transformative Lives
53 Washington Square South
New York City
Tickets required

April 4, 6PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Athenaeum
10-1/2 Beacon Street
Boston

April 12, 7 PM reception, 7:30 reading – MASSACHUSETTS
Friends of the Goddard Library
Higgins University Center
Clark University
Worcester
Tickets required for reception
More information

April 20, 7PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Megan Marshall in conversation with Lloyd Schwartz
Porter Square Books
25 White Street
Cambridge

April 26, 7PM – VERMONT
Megan Marshall in conversation with April Bernard and Mark Wunderlich
Bennington College

April 29, 11AM — MASSACHUSETTS
Newburyport Book Festival
Newburyport Art Association
65 Water Street
Newburyport

May 3, 7pm - MASSACHUSETTS
Odyssey Bookshop
9 College Street, South Hadley 

May 20, TBA –  MASSACHUSETTS
“Women in Love”
panel discussion with biographers Megan Marshall, Ruth Franklin, and Charlotte Gordonmoderated by Anne C. Heller
Biographers International Organization 2017 Conference
Emerson College
Boston

June 1, 7:00-8:30 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Centennial Address
Women’s National Book Association, Boston Chapter
Commonwealth Salon
Boston Public Library
Copley Square, Boston

June 6, 3:00–4:30 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Spotlight on Collections: Thoreau’s Notes on the Shipwreck of Margaret Fuller
Houghton Library
Harvard University
Cambridge

June 10, 4 PM — NEW YORK
“Remembering Margaret Fuller at Point O’ Woods”
Robert F. Sayre Memorial Lecture
Point O’ Woods
Fire Island

June 17, 12:00-12:45 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
Megan Marshall in conversation with Kay Redfield Jamison
Nantucket Book Festival
Athenaeum Great Hall
Nantucket

June 21, 6PM – MASSACHUSETTS
“Margaret Fuller and Others”
Fruitlands Museum
Harvard, Massachusetts

July 10, 4 PM —  MASSACHUSETTS
July 11, 11 AM
The Mount Summer Lecture Series
Edith Wharton estate
Lenox

July 12-16 – MASSACHUSETTS
Henry David Thoreau Society Annual Gathering – Bicentennial Celebration!
PEN New England-sponsored round table discussion on Thoreau’s literary influence, July 12, 1:00-3:00, First Parish
Panel on Transcendentalism and Poetry, July 14, 10:30-12:00, Masonic Temple
Panel on Biographies of Transcendentalists, July 16, 4PM, Orchard House
Concord

August 2,  5PM  — MAINE
North Haven Library Association
North Haven

Megan Marshall will be a visiting scholar at Kyoto University for the fall of 2017.  She will give lectures at these locations:

Kyoto University, October 20
Nihon Women’s University, Tokyo, October 30

Tokyo University, October 31
Japanese American Literature conference, Chu-Shikoku American Literature Society, Hiroshima, November 11

December 6 – MASSACHUSETTS
7:00 PM
Newton Free Public Library
Screening of PBS documentary, Edgar A. Poe: Buried Alive
Post-screening discussion with director Eric Stange, Poe scholar Paul Lewis, and Megan Marshall

December 14 – MASSACHUSETTS
7:00 PM
Paperback launch for Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast
Belmont Books
79 Leonard Street
Belmont

2016

January 21 – Massachusetts
5:30-7:00 PM
“Biography Inc.:  Two Writers Talk about the Trade”
Megan Marshall and Christopher Benfey in a conversation moderated by Susan Ware
New England Biography Seminar
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston
Open to the public by advance registration

March 30 – Massachusetts
7:00 PM
Margaret Fuller—reading and conversation
Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
345 Main Street
Wakefield
 
April 7 – Massachusetts
5:30 – 7:00 PM
“BioFictions—Turning ‘Real’ People into Fictional Characters”
Panel discussion with novelists Alice Hoffman, Geraldine Brooks, and Matthew Pearl
Moderated by Megan Marshall
New England Biography Seminar
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston
Open to the public by advance registration

April 14 – Massachusetts
6:30 PM
Thoreau’s Legacy: A Modern Lyceum
Panel discussion on “Education and Educational Access,”  
with Megan Marshall, Lawrence Buell, and Jeffrey Cramer
Old South Meeting House
310 Washington Street
Boston

May 11 – Massachusetts
7:00 PM
Marlborough Public Library Author Night
Megan Marshall interviewed by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Friends of the Marlborough Public Library
35 West Main Street
Marlborough

May 20 – Massachusetts
7:00 PM
Megan Marshall interviews Naomi Wolf
Twenty Summers Arts Center
Hawthorne Barn
Provincetown
More info

June 6 – Massachusetts
5:30-7:00 PM
Writing Women: Telling the Histories of Women in Boston
Sponsored by the Nichols House Museum
Speakers: Megan Marshall, Regina Marchi, Nancy Rubin Stuart, Dina Vargo
New England Historic Genealogical Society
99-101 Newbury Street

July 21 – New York
6:30 PM
“Rome on the Cusp of the Modern Era: 1849-1870”
Megan Marshall and David Kertzer, two Pulitzer Prize-winning biographers in conversation
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue
New York City
Tickets: $15; $10 for members; free for students with a valid ID
The exhibition City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics will be open at 5:30 for program attendees

October 9, 1:00 PM – WISCONSIN
First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee 175th Anniversary celebration,
Morter Lecture: “Fullness of Being: Margaret Fuller’s Philosophy of Self-Dependence”
1342 N. Astor Street
Milwaukee

October 24, 7 PM – MASSACHUSETTS
AGNI 84 launch reading:
Megan Marshall, Cynthia Zarin, Debra Spark, Louis de Paor
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
949 Commonwealth Avenue
(Green Line B, Pleasant Street)
Boston

2015

January 17 – Vermont
Commencement address
Bennington College winter MFA graduation
Bennington
 
February 12 – New Jersey
7:00 PM
“Margaret Fuller and the Peabody Sisters:
The Origins of an American Women’s Movement in Unitarian-Transcendentalism”
The Unitarian Society of Ridgewood
113 Cottage Place,
Ridgewood
view event flyer (PDF)

March 2 – Illinois
4:00 PM
“My Elizabeths: A Biographer and Her Subjects”
Genevieve Staudt Intercultural Lecture
Elmhurst College
Elmhurst

MARCH 7 –  MASSACHUSETTS
3:00-4:30 PM
Women’s History Month Panel: 
Megan Marshall on Margaret Fuller, Eve LaPlante on Anne Bradstreet, Susan Ware on Amelia Earhart
Sponsored by the Abigail Adams Historical Society
Weymouth High School Humanities Center
1 Wildcat Way
South Weymouth
 
March 29 – Massachusetts
3:00 PM
“Writing Mothers,” panel discussion sponsored by PEN New England
Boston-area location TBA

May 8 – Massachusetts
7:00 PM
Conrad Wright Memorial Lecture
Unitarian-Universalist Historical Society
Unitarian-Universalist Association Headquarters
24 Farnsworth Street
Boston

May 18 – Massachusetts
3:00 PM
Graduate Commencement Address, Emerson College
Boston Convention Center
Tickets required

May 30 – California
2:00 PM
Reading at Allendale Branch Library
1130 South Marengo Ave.
Pasadena
 
June 6 – Oregon
5PM
Reading at Klindt’s Booksellers
315 East 2nd Street
The Dalles
 
June 17 – Massachusetts
6PM
Reading and lecture on Margaret Fuller
The House of the Seven Gables
115 Derby Street
Salem

August 14-15 – Maine
Symposium on Elizabeth Bishop
North Haven Community Center

September 24 – Massachusetts
4:00 PM
Reading from work-in-progress on Elizabeth Bishop in a shared program
with Boston Poet Laureate and Emerson College alum Danielle Legros Georges
Beard Room, Little Building
80 Boylston Street
Emerson College
Boston

November 3 – Massachusetts
7 PM
Matthew Pearl and Kevin Birmingham in
conversation about historical narrative
and the writing life in Cambridge,
Moderated by Megan Marshall
Porter Square Books
Porter Square Shopping Center
25 White Street
Cambridge

November 17 – Massachusetts
4:15 PM
Lecture: “My Elizabeths: A Biographer on Her Subjects”
Radcliffe Institute
Sheerr Room, Faye House
10 Garden Street
Cambridge

December 10 – Massachusetts
6PM
River Stories Live, Megan Marshall participates in panel discussion moderated by Tom Ashbrook
Benefit for the Charles River Conservancy
Google Cambridge
355 Main Street, 5th Floor
Cambridge
Tickets required

2014

January 4 – WASHINGTON DC
11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Panel discussion “Writing American History Outside the Academy”
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
Marriott Wardman Park, Thurgood Marshall Ballroom North

January 29 - MASSACHUSETTS
7:30 PM
The First Church in Belmont Unitarian Unversalist, 404 Concord Avenue, Belmont MA

February 9 – MASSACHUSETTS
4 PM
Paul Pratt Memorial Library Cohasset
35 Ripley Rd., Cohasset, MA

March 4 – MASSACHUSETTS
7 PM
Brookline Booksmith – Margaret Fuller  Paperback Launch!
279 Harvard Street, Brookline MA

March 5 – MASSACHUSETTS
6 PM - reservations required
First Church in the Back Bay, Learning Community lecture
66 Marlborough Street, Boston

March 12 – MASSACHUSETTS
7 PM
Falmouth Historical Society
55 & 65 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth MA
 
March 13 – MASSACHUSETTS
1:00-2:30 PM
Snow Library Orleans, 67 Main St., Orleans, MA

March 16 – MASSACHUSETTS
3:00-4:30 PM
“Margaret Fuller: A Heroine for the 21st Century”
Event sponsored by the Transcendentalism Council of First Parish Concord
20 Lexington Road, Concord

March 22 – VIRGINIA
10:00 AM
Reading with Rose Styron
Twentieth Virginia Festival of the Book
UVA Bookstore, Charlottesville, Virginia

March 28 – MASSACHUSETTS
8 PM
Lexington Historical Society Cronin Lecture
The Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington MA

April 1 – MASSACHUSETTS
7PM
Bacon Free Library
58 Eliot Street, Natick

April 17 – MASSACHUSETTS
7PM, Megan Marshall in conversation with John Demos on his new book The Heathen School
Harvard Bookstore
1256 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

May 1 – NEW YORK
Biographers Megan Marshall and Diane Jacobs (Dear Abigail) in conversation
6:30 PM
Leon Levy Center for Biography
CUNY Grad Center

May 3 – MASSACHUSETTS
3:45-5:00 PM
“Biography:  How-To” 
Grub Street’s annual The Muse and the Marketplace symposium
Park Plaza Hotel, Boston
Registration required
museandthemarketplace.org/index.php?id=4613

May 8 – CALIFORNIA
7:30 PM
Mrs. Dalloway’s
2904 College Ave., Berkeley CA
 
May 9 – CALIFORNIA
7 PM
Vroman’s Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena CA

May 17 – MASSACHUSETTS
4:30-5:45 PM
“Making Modernism: A Conversation Between Biographers Megan Marshall and Linda Leavell”
Compleat Biographer Conference 2014
Biographers International Organization (BIO)
UMass Boston
Registration required
biographersinternational.org/conference/

May 24 – WASHINGTON, DC.
2 PM
Roundtable discussion:  “Elizabeth Bishop as Teacher and Mentor,” with Megan Marshall, Jane Shore, and Julie Agoos, moderated by Thomas Travisano
American Literature Association 25th Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency Washington
Washington DC
Registration Required

June 14 – MASSACHUSETTS
10:10-11:30 AM
Roundtable discussion:  “Women Writers of the Berkshires,” with Lucinda Damon-Bach, Kathleen Lawrence, Irene Goldman-Price, and Cornelia Gilder, moderated by Megan Marshall
Hawthorne in the Berkshires Conference
Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
North Adams, Massachusetts
Registration required

July 13 – MASSACHUSETTS
2:30-5 PM
“The Conundrum of Creativity”:  Conversation on Concord authors (Alcott, Thoreau, Fuller, Hawthorne, Emerson) among Megan Marshall, George Howe Colt, and Phyllis Cole, sponsored by Orchard House and the Thoreau Society
Masonic Lodge, 58 Monument Square, Concord

August 6 – MASSACHUSETTS
6:30 PM
Author’s Night
Stellina Restaurant
47 Main Street, Watertown

October 5 – MASSACHUSETTS
12:30 PM
Megan Marshall will take part in unveiling ceremonies for "Poe Comes to
Boston" statue
Boston Park Plaza Hotel
For more info download event flyer

October 24 – MASSACHUSETTS
6:00 PM
Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker
Friends of West Roxbury Branch Library
Open to the public
West Roxbury Branch Library
1961 Center Street
West Roxbury
More info
 
October 28 – NEW YORK
6:00 PM
Conversation with Wallis Wilde-Menozzi (The Other Side of the Tiber) on American women writers in Italy.
New York University, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
24 West 12th Street, New York City
212-998-8739
More info

2013

April 5, 7:00 pm - MASSACHUSETTS
“Margaret Fuller in Love”
Concord Free Public Library
129 Main St., Concord MA
Click here for more event information.

May 15, 6:00 pm - CALIFORNIA
Book Passage
1 Ferry Building, San Francisco

May 29, 7pm - MASSACHUSETTS
Peabody Institute Library, 82 Main Street, Peabody MA