Megan Marshall: "After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart"
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Megan Marshall: "After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart"
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In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, multi-award-winning biographer Megan Marshall chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
- Why a renowned biographer turned the lens on herself, blending memoir with biography after decades of writing about other people.
- How writing about her partner’s illness and loss and heartbreak made Megan a more empathetic biographer.
- Megan’s bold decision to step out from behind the scenes and become a character in her own book.
- The touching reason Megan put her mother’s self-portrait on the cover.
- How decades of exploring other people’s lives taught Megan surprising lessons about living her own life.
- What Megan means by ‘the mysteries of the human heart’ and why some questions about a life will always remain unanswered.
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