The Aug. 4 issue of The New Yorker features a piece on the new book by Brenda Wineapple,“White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.”
Wineapple, the Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, discussed the book on campus in May.
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Wineapple joined Union in 1976. In 2004, she published her acclaimed biography of Nathanial Hawthorne, “Hawthorne: A Life." She also is author of "Gênet: A Biography of Janet Flanner” and “Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein.” Her essays, articles and reviews have appeared regularly in national publications such as The American Scholar, New York Times Book Review, and The Nation.
She holds a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.