Boston Globe Sunday Magazine feature, “The Lost Poems of Scott Harney,” May 10, 2020, tells the story of Megan Marshall’s work on The Blood of San Gennaro
Read Megan Marshall’s Arrowsmith Journal essays,“Place of Rest,” and “Chalk Talk,” on walking in her neighborhood—Mt. Auburn Cemetery and the streets of Cambridge and Belmont, Massachusetts—during our time of contagion.
Megan Marshall has been awarded a fellowship at the Bogliasco Foundation’s Study Center near Genoa to work on her new book, In Heaven’s Own Time: The Women of Hawthorne’s Romances, September-October 2019.
Boston Globe Pick of the Week, June 2, 2019:
“Serena Longo at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, recommends Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast by Megan Marshall, ‘A thoughtful, compelling, and remarkably personal look at the life and work of one of our most beloved (and elusive) poets. Marshall boldly and deftly interweaves her subject’s story with brief bits of her own, lending a further touch of intimacy to this detailed, expertly researched, and beautifully narrated biography.’”
Megan Marshall interviewed as “one of the great biographers of women” by Joanne Mulcahy inWomen’s Review of Books, March/April 2019
Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast among top ten finalists for BIO’s Plutarch Prize, “the only international annual literary award presented for outstanding work by a biographer by fellow biographers.” January 15, 2018
Commendation: "With extraordinary steadiness of voice throughout, Megan Marshall depicts the complex life of Elizabeth Bishop. She effectively and unobtrusively uses her own interaction as a student of Bishop's to shine light on Bishop's character and ultimately to illuminate how the biographer is drawn to her craft. A brave, groundbreaking work.”
Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast on “Paperback Row,”New York Times Book ReviewDecember 24, 2017
Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast selected one of the best books of 2017 by Boston Globe: “An intimate and eloquent account of Bishop’s life, from a difficult childhood in New England and Canada to a tumultuous romantic life; Pulitzer-winner Marshall, a former student of Bishop’s, brings her own experiences of the poet’s later life into the story, to rich effect.” –Kate Tuttle
Elizabeth Bishop featured in Publishers Weekly,“Top Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2017”:
“A biography that is at heart about the art of writing, the way that scholarship and research (as much as poetry) can offer a way to integrate losses that might be otherwise too overwhelming and painful to bear,” writes Kim Phillips-Fein, author of the PW top-ten book Fear City. December 8, 2017
“A Year In Reading”: Kevin Young praises Elizabeth Bishop for “groundbreaking research” and bringing “the poet to life as well as her struggles.”
The Millions, December 2017
“Garden, Temple, Tea, River, Miracle, Sun”: Megan Marshall interviewed by Ann Slater at Huffington Post as she returns from a residency at Kyoto University, November 27, 2017.
Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast makesWashington Post 2017 Notable Nonfiction list, November 15, 2017.
Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast and The Peabody Sisters recommended by “Match Book,” The New York Times, August 8, 2017
Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast is launched! Emily Avery-Miller on Marshall’s new book in The ARTery
“Elizabeth and Alice,”excerpt from Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast in The New Yorker online
Megan Marshall reads “Amaryllis” and Scott Harney’s “Waiting for Snow”
Followed by performances of Scott Wheeler’s song settings at Boston Athenaeum concert, “An Evening of Poetry and Song,” December 14, 2022
Featuring Sarah Chalfy, soprano, and Jonathan Woody, baritone
Megan Marshall interviewed for The History of Literature podcast in two episodes on her biographies of Margaret Fuller and the Peabody sisters.
Megan Marshall interviewed for “Treasures Within: The Recovered Letters of Margaret Fuller,” Episode 11 of The Object of History Podcast A production of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Megan Marshall interviewed by Bridget Kendall of the BBC World Service for an episode of “The Forum” on Margaret Fuller, March 31, 2022
Writing Writers' Lives: Writing the American Renaissance, March 18, 2013.
John Matteson The Lives of Margaret Fuller, moderator. Jeffrey S. Cramer The Portable Thoreau, ed), Megan Marshall Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, David S. Reynolds Walt Whitman’s America.
Megan Marshall gives
