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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the days before the internet, writers used to develop passionate feelings toward the lexicographers whose masterpieces adorned their desks. In her diary entry for February 19, 1956, the young ...

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: ...

'Dickinson' creator Alena Smith talks to THR about the Apple TV+ half-hour comedy starring Hailee Steinfeld as a young version of Emily Dickinson, including the poet's fluid sexuality, how Apple Music ...

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 ...