In February 1947, not long after the publication of her inaugural, prize-winning collection, North & South, Elizabeth Bishop wrote a letter to her therapist, Ruth Foster, in which she attempted to ...

"Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast" by Megan Marshall. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2017) Megan Marshall’s biography of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79), a Pulitzer Prize winner born and buried in ...

"The eminences that you are in the presence of do teach you,” says acclaimed biographer Megan Marshall. “Even if not directly how to write a poem, there are messages about life that are significant ...

Maybe it's fitting that a new biography of the brilliant and troubled poet Elizabeth Bishop is something of a beautiful mess. From a childhood marked by her father's death and her mentally ill mother ...

“A poet’s poet’s poet,” as acclaimed poet John Ashbery described her, Elizabeth Bishop, one of the finest mid-twentieth century American poets, is masterfully portrayed in Megan Marshall’s new ...

The first of Elizabeth Bishop’s losses was her father, who died when she was eight months old. The second loss was more protracted: Bishop’s mother, shattered by her husband’s death, suffered a series ...