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Virtual Author Talk with Allison Pataki

About new release "Finding Margaret Fuller"

Join us virtually to celebrate the launch of a new book by Allison Pataki. Margie Ticknor, Director of Kemmerer Library in Harding, will interview Pataki about her latest, "Finding Margaret Fuller".

Registration is now closed.  If you'd like the link, please call the library at (973) 584-2400.  Thank you!

Finding Margaret Fuller, to be released this month, has been three years in the making, ever since the life story of Margaret Fuller gripped author Allison Pataki when she first encountered her name in the pages of a book about the great Transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Louisa May Alcott. As is typical of Pataki, she could not help but wonder: how had she never heard of Margaret Fuller?

The book has already received a starred review from Publishers Weekly: [In The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post,] "Pataki takes readers on a trans-Atlantic journey in this winning fictional biography of Transcendentalist writer Margaret Fuller (1810–1850). In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson offers the 26-year-old scholar a job as editor of his magazine the Dial in Concord, Mass. She accepts, but strikes out on her own several months later because the magazine is unable to earn enough money to cover her salary. After publishing two successful books, including one focused on inequities faced by women, she travels to Rome in 1847 as a foreign news correspondent to witness what she and her boss, Horace Greeley, hope will be the birth of the nation of Italy. In Rome, the perpetually lonely Margaret at last meets and marries a man who appreciates her active mind. In 1848, Italy joins the wave of nationalist democratic revolutions against monarchies across Europe, and Margaret hides in the countryside to 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 attack, and she and her family depart for America. Pataki’s star-studded and gripping account is full of lush details about the life of an overlooked contributor to Transcendentalism and women’s rights. This is one to savor. 

About the Author: Allison Pataki’s 100-year-old grandmother once told her: “As long as I have a good book, I will never be lonely.” She feels the same way.  From an early age, Allison was an avid reader. Always making up stories and lost in her own world, it seemed that she was a born writer. 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 thing 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 very personal memoir as well as two children's books. 

This program will be hosted by Kemmerer Library in Harding, and is made possible by the Friends of Roxbury Public Library.  Register online or by phone and the zoom link will be sent to you the day before the program.   If you register within a few hours of the program, please call (973) 584-2400 to request the link.

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