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 ...

Conventional wisdom has it you can tell a lot about a person by the company he or she keeps. But, what if posterity makes a big mistake in judging a famous somebody's friends; wouldn't that blunder ...

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 ...

“Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds” by Lyndall Gordon (Viking, 491 pgs., $32.95) Why can’t we leave Emily Dickinson alone? Since her death in 1886, the iconic American ...

One of the most highly anticipated Apple TV+ series launching on Nov. 1 is a half hour sitcom chronicling the young life of the clever, daring, inspiring poet Emily Dickinson. Her brother Austin on ...

Emily Dickinson is considered one of most original voices in poetry and as one of the founders of a uniquely American poetic tradition. But the world may have never known her had two women — Mabel ...

Emily Dickinson (Molly Shannon) and sister-in-law Susan Gilbert (Susan Ziegler) embrace in "Wild Nights With Emily." Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment It’s Emily Dickinson as you’ve never seen her: ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Brenda Wineapple's highly engaging biography White Heat examines the poet's enduring friendship with editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson. New Biography Takes 'Heat' Off Dickinson Editor Conventional ...