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\nFinding Margaret Fuller\, \;to be relea sed this month\, has been three years in the making\, ever since \;the life story of Margaret Fuller gripped author Allison Pataki \;when sh e first encountered her name in the pages of a \;book about the great Transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Louisa May Alcott. As is t ypical of \;Pataki\, she could not help but \;wonder: how had she& nbsp\;never \;heard of Margaret Fuller?
\nThe book has already r eceived a starred review from Publishers Weekly: [In \;The Magnifi cent Lives of Marjorie Post\,] "Pataki \;takes readers on a trans -Atlantic journey in this winning fictional biography of Transcendentalist writer Margaret Fuller (1810&ndash\;1850). In 1836\, Ralph Waldo Emerson offers the 26-year-old scholar a job as editor of his magazine the \;D ial \;in Concord\, Mass. She accepts\, but strikes out on her own seve ral months later because the magazine is unable to earn enough money to co ver her salary. After publishing two successful books\, including one focu sed on inequities faced by women\, she travels to Rome in 1847 as a foreig n news correspondent to witness what she and her boss\, Horace Greeley\, h ope will be the birth of the nation of Italy. In Rome\, the perpetually lo nely Margaret at last meets and marries a man who appreciates her active m ind. In 1848\, Italy joins the wave of nationalist democratic revolutions against monarchies across Europe\, and Margaret hides in the countryside t o give birth to her son. On the way back to Rome to be with her husband\, a member of the nationalistic Civil Guard\, she is nearly killed in an att ack\, and she and her family depart for America. \;Pataki&rsquo\;s sta r-studded and gripping account is full of lush details about the life of a n overlooked contributor to Transcendentalism and women&rsquo\;s rights. T his is one to savor. \;
\nAbout the Author: All ison Pataki&rsquo\;s 100-year-old grandmother once told her: &ldquo\;As lo ng as I have a good book\, I will never be lonely.&rdquo\; She feels the s ame way. \; From an early age\, Allison was an avid reader. Always mak ing up stories and lost in her own world\, it seemed that she was a born w riter. But even though she majored in English at Yale\, she took a bit of a different path. Pursuing a career in journalism seemed like the right th ing to do. It took Allison a few years before she realized that her hobby of writing fiction in her free time was what she wanted to do all the time . As a New York Times best selling author\, she has not looked back. While she is primarily a historical fiction writer\, she has also published a v ery personal memoir as well as two children's books. \;
\nThis p rogram will be hosted by Kemmerer Library in Harding\, and is made possibl e by the Friends of Roxbury Public Library. \; Register online or by p hone and the zoom link will be sent to you the day before the program.&nbs p\; \;If you register within a few hours of the program\, please call (973) 584-2400 to request the link.
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