Megan Marshall: "After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart"

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.