National Book Award Non Fiction Winner
The Life of Emily Dickinson
by Richard B. Sewall
Summary
A massive, two-volume biography that situates the "Belle of Amherst" within the social and intellectual context of her family and 19th-century New England.
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Historical Context & Significance
Sewall chose to spend the first 300 pages of the biography discussing Dickinson's family and community, arguing that her "reclusion" was a social choice, not a sickness.