Allison Pataki
Author Allison Pataki Discusses Her Novel About Margaret Fuller at Darien Library
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Author Allison Pataki will discuss her latest book, Finding Margaret Fuller, in conversation with author Lee Woodruff, at Darien Library. — an announcement from Darien Library
The novel, just published in March, is an epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller – America’s forgotten leading lady and the central figure of a movement that defined a nation. Massachusetts, 1836. Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated “Sage of Concord,” to meet his coterie of enlightened friends shaping a nation in the throes of its own self-discovery. By the end of her stay, she will become “the radiant genius and fiery heart” of the Transcendentalists, a role model to young Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s character of Hester Prynne and the scandalous Scarlet Letter, a friend to Henry David Thoreau as he ventures into the woods of Walden Pond .