BY BRENDA WINEAPPLE
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Hawthorne: A Life
Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein
Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner
John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems (editor)
19th-Century American Writers on Writing (editor)
Walt Whitman Speaks (editor)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BRENDA WINEAPPLE is the author of several books, including Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877, named a best book of the year by The New York Times, among other publications; White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Hawthorne: A Life, winner of the Ambassador Book Award for Best Biography of the Year; and Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein. Her numerous other honors include a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, two National Endowment Fellowships in the Humanities, and, most recently, a National Endowment Public Scholars Award. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Society of American Historians and regularly contributes to major publications such as The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, and The Nation.
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