In celebration of their Centennial year, the WNBA is thrilled to announce that renowned author Megan Marshall, will be speaking about women and their involvement in the arts and literature. Her biography Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (2013), a richly detailed account of the 19th-century author, journalist, and women’s rights advocate who perished in a shipwreck off New York’s Fire Island, won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Mark your calendars for Thursday, June 1st from 7:00-8:30 PM at the Boston Public Library, Commonwealth Salon.
This event is free and open to the public.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.