 Brenda Wineapple joins the Graduate Center as executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography beginning September 2009. She is the author of four acclaimed books, most recently White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Knopf, 2008), which examines the correspondence between the brilliant and reclusive poet and her publisher and lifetime supporter. A New York Times Notable Book of 2008, White Heat also won the Washington Arts Club National Award for Arts Writing and was a finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award. Hawthorne: A Life (Knopf, 2003) was honored with the 2003 Ambassador Award for Best Biography and the Boston Book Club’s Julia Howe Award. Ms. Wineapple is also the author of Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein (Putnam, 1996) and Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner (Ticknor and Fields, 1989).
Ms. Wineapple edited The Selected Poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier (Library of America, 2004) and, more recently, the anthology Nineteenth-Century American Writers on Writing (Trinity University Press, 2010), a forthcoming volume in the series The Writer’s World, for which the poet Edward Hirsch is series editor. Wineapple’s essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Parnassus, Poetry, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2009, her essay on Dickinson, “Her Own Society,” which originally appeared in The American Scholar, was awarded a Pushcart Prize.
She has been a Guggenheim fellow, a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, and twice a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For many years, she taught at Union College in Schenectady, where she was the Doris Zemurray Professor of Modern Literature and Historical Studies. Wineapple is currently on the M.F.A. faculty of Columbia University and the New School, where she teaches courses in non-fiction writing.
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