John Matteson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographer-- Reading

John Matteson's new book is The Lives of Margaret Fuller (2012), a portrait of the fiery 19th century social critic, newspaper columnist, and the most famous American woman of her time. Author of the first great work of American feminism, Fuller was a leading Transcendentalist, war columnist, and free spirit who conceived a child out of wedlock. Matteson received a Pulitzer for Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father (2007).
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