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Join us in person or virtually to hear biographer Richard Kopley present on on his new book Edgar Allan Poe--A Life, followed by a discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Megan Marshall.
Richard Kopley is Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, at Penn State DuBois, and the author of The Threads of The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries, and The Formal Center in Literature--Explorations from Poe to the Present. Kopley has been a Fulbright Specialist and a Virginia Humanities Fellow. In 2018, he received a Lifetime Achievement and Service Award from the Poe Studies Association.
Megan Marshall is an associate professor of nonfiction writing at Emerson College. Her writings have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Times Book Review, Slate, and the London Review of Books. Her first biography, The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism (2005), won the Francis Parkman Prize and the Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction. Her book, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Biography in 2014.