


Margaret Fuller
An item at American Writers Museum
Regarded as the best read person in New England, Margaret Fuller advocated for tolerance and liberty. She provided forceful and honest commentary on everything from literature and the arts to women's rights, abolitionism, and prison reform.
Fuller was a trailblazer. She was the first editor of the Transcendentalist magazine The Dial. As a columnist for the New-York Tribune, she reported on the plight of immigrants and the poor, and then became the paper's foreign correspondent (the first woman to do so), courageously covering unrest in Europe. She also wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), a foundational feminist work that argued for having "every path laid open to woman as freely as to man."
AMERICAN VOICES
An exhibit at American Writers Museum
American writing is distinctive, diverse, and comes in many forms from across the nation. The 100 authors featured here represent the evolution of American writing. Learn more about each writer on the timeline by turning the panels below their portraits. Explore centuries of writing by pulling, turning, and touching the interactive elements on the counter.
This is not meant to be a list of the greatest or most influential writers. Instead, we present authors and works as part of the American story as it grows and changes. Taken together, this rich literary heritage reflects America in all of its complexity: its energy, hope, conflict, disillusionment, and creativity.