{"product_id":"after-lives-on-biography-and-the-mysteries-of-the-human-heart-9780618684182","title":"After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA moving and penetrating memoir of a life in biography from the Pulitzer Prize winner and \"gifted storyteller\" (Judith Thurman, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMegan Marshall's innovative books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Peabody Sisters\u003c\/em\u003e and the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003cem\u003eMargaret Fuller\u003c\/em\u003e, are treasured works of American biography. In the richly absorbing essays of \u003cem\u003eAfter Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, Marshall turns her narrative gift to her own art, life, and the people in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 characters on the page, including the twelfth-century Buddhist hermit Kamo no Chomei, a reassuring spiritual presence for Marshall during several otherwise deracinating months in Kyoto. In her stunning coming-of-age tale, \"Free for a While,\" set in 1970s California, Marshall interweaves the story of her adolescence with that of Black Power martyr Jonathan Jackson, the author's AP history classmate, gunned down at seventeen in a failed attempt to free his famed older brother George from prison in the case that put Angela Davis on the FBI's Most Wanted list. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere too is the author's passion for the biographical chase, and for the mysteries at its heart. She tells the astonishing story of viewing the disinterred remains of her one-time subject Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, wife of Nathaniel, and their daughter Una, the truths of whose early death Marshall works to reveal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout these finely wrought essays, Marshall, \"[at] the front rank of American biographers\" (Dwight Garner, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e), makes palpable her driving impulse to \"learn what I could from others: how to live, how not to live, what it means to live.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780618684182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Megan Marshall","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44916356710581,"sku":"9780618684182","price":25.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_66c4b0e0-b3c6-49dd-a7d0-26217451503e.jpg?v=1734450070","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/after-lives-on-biography-and-the-mysteries-of-the-human-heart-9780618684182","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}