Brenda Wineapple, the Washington Irving Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, has received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for support of research on her biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne, which has been contracted by
publisher Alfred A. Knopf.
Wineapple last year published Sister Brother Gertrude and Leo Stein about the
brother-sister team that collaborated on many of the great art and literary adventures of
the early 20th century. In 1989, she wrote an acclaimed biography, Genêt: A Biography
of Janet Flanner about the Paris correspondent to the New Yorker.
A member of the College's faculty since 1976, she earned her B.A. from Brandeis
University, and her master's and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has
authored a number of articles on 19th- and 20th- century American and British literature
and authors. She has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a
grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.