Biography, Inc.: Two Writers Talk about the Trade

Join Christopher Benfey and Megan Marshall in a wide-ranging conversation moderated by Susan Ware about teaching, reviewing, and writing biography.  Christopher Benfey, Mt. Holyoke College, is the author of A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade as well as The Double Life of Stephen Crane and Degas In New Orleans.  His current work is on  Rudyard Kipling.  Megan Marshall, Emerson College, is the author of The Peabody Sisters and Margaret Fuller: A New American Life.  She is at work on a biography of Elizabeth Bishop, with whom she studied “verse writing” at Harvard College.

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