{"product_id":"after-lives-on-biography-and-the-mysteries-of-the-human-heart-hardcover","title":"After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMegan Marshall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47476609876146,"sku":"9780618684182","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/8e262aeeca06a6de8e1d232b16a7d886.webp?v=1779186133","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/after-lives-on-biography-and-the-mysteries-of-the-human-heart-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}