After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart.

New York: Mariner Books, 2025. First Edition, stated. Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), gilt lettering, 189 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Megan 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 and life, reinventing the personal essay form as a portal to the past with lessons for living in the future. The book’s brilliant, assured interplay between memoir and biography places