# Event Details - **Event Name**: Megan Marshall on the Art of Biography, with Martha Hodes - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 06:30 pm – Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for a deep dive into the art of biography with Megan Marshall and Martha Hodes!About this EventMegan Marshall on the Art of Biography, with Martha HodesEvent Location: The Skylight Room: 9100Megan Marshall’s innovative books, including The Peabody Sisters and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Margaret Fuller, are treasured works of American biography. In the richly absorbing essays of After Lives, Marshall turns her narrative gift to her own art, life, and the people in it.In 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 Pr*son in the case that put Angela Davis on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.Megan Marshall is the author of After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart, a collection of retrospective essays on the biographer’s craft, and three biographies: the Pulitzer Prize-winning Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, and The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Marshall is Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor Emerita at Emerson College, where she taught life writing and archival research in the MFA Creative Writing program.Martha Hodes, Professor of History at New York University, is most recently the author of My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering, which was excerpted in the New Yorker and named an editor’s choice by the New York Times Book Review. She is also the author of Mourning Lincoln; The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century; and White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/megan-marshall-on-the-art-of-biography-with-martha-hodes/100001752199268179 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, sports - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: The Skylight Room: 9100 - **lat**: 40.748449 - **long**: -73.98349159999998 - **full address**: The Skylight Room: 9100, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Megan Marshall on the Art of Biography, with Martha Hodes - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/c101d94996316c5369d932ee3686dac3ec589471b358ff529fb38f8fa6fae0d8-rimg-w940-h470-dc1a1312-gmir.jpg?v=1760519812 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Megan Marshall on the Art of Biography, with Martha Hodes being held? - **A:** Megan Marshall on the Art of Biography, with Martha Hodes takes place on Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 06:30 pm to Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 08:30 pm at The Skylight Room: 9100, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Megan Marshall on the Art of Biography, with Martha Hodes? - **A:** Megan Marshall on the Art of Biography, with Martha Hodes is organized by The Leon Levy Center for Biography. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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