A week after Emily Dickinson died in 1886, her younger sister Lavinia opened drawers in the reclusive poet's bedroom and found a veritable treasure trove: nearly 1,800 poems, meticulously crafted by ...

Emily Dickinson is one of America’s most important poets. Her work — nearly 2,000 poems, discovered after her death in 1885 — is unlike anything written during the 19th century. It had a profound ...

Though almost all of Emily Dickinson’s famous poems, from the morbid “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” to the uplifting “‘Hope’ Is the Thing With Feathers,” were published after her death, she’s ...

So why do we need another biography of the belle of Amherst? One good reason is that Alfred Habegger has employed more recent scholarship and corrected dates on some 40 letters that were misattributed ...

Just a few years ago, A Quiet Passion was lauded for its portrayal of Dickinson. Now, Wild Nights with Emily offers a new take on the poet. Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you ...

Lyndall Gordon's Lives Like Loaded Guns explores the family secrets of the reclusive 19th-century poet. Gordon theorizes that Dickinson may have... Biography Speculates Emily Dickinson Had Epilepsy A ...

This memoir, by Emily Dickinson’s niece — first published in 1932, and out of print for decades — is a wonderful example of how biography can illuminate the life and work of an artist even when the ...