Brenda Wineapple

Brenda Wineapple is an American nonfiction writer, literary critic, and essayist who has written several books on nineteenth-century American writers.

Brenda Wineapple
BornBoston, Massachusetts
Alma materBrandeis University,
University of Wisconsin–Madison
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectArts
Notable awardsMarfield Prize

Early life and education

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she graduated from Brandeis University.

Career

In 2014, Wineapple received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her book White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and three National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. Elected a Fellow of the Society of American Historians and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is also an elected Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU and was the Donald C. Gallup Fellow at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, as well as a fellow of the Indiana Institute of Arts and Letters. She serves as literary advisor for the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of America, and she is on the advisor board of Lapham's Quarterly and The American Scholar.

Wineapple currently teaches in the MFA programs at Columbia University's School of the Arts and at the New School in New York City. She was previously the Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at The Graduate School, CUNY, and its Writer-in-Residence. She has also taught at Sarah Lawrence College and in the summer MFA program of Johns Hopkins University in Florence, Italy.

A regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The Nation and other national publications, she is also the editor of The Selected Poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier (a volume in the Library of America's American Poets Project) and Nineteenth-Century American Writers on Writing (a volume in The Writers' World, edited by Edward Hirsch).[1]

Personal life

She is married to the composer Michael Dellaira.[2]

Works

References

  1. "Brenda Wineapple". Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  2. Wineapple, Brenda (2013). "Biography". brendawineapple.com/. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
  3. Wineapple, Brenda. Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner with Ticknor and Fields (1992, University of Nebraska Press).
  4. "Sister Brother - Gertrude and Leo Stein". Bison Books (University of Nebraska Press). Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  5. White Heat reviews on RandomHouse.ca
  6. "National Book Critics Circle: 2008 Biography Finalist White Heat, by Brenda Wineapple - Critical Mass Blog". Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  7. Reynolds, David (August 9, 2013). "Patriotic Roar", New York Times Book Review.
  8. "100 Notable Books of 2013". The New York Times. 8 December 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  9. "Best Nonfiction Books of 2013". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  10. "Nonfiction Book Review: Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877 by Brenda Wineapple. HarperCollins, $35 (736p) ISBN 978-0-06-123457-6". Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  11. "Nonfiction book review: The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation". www.publishersweekly.com. March 26, 2019. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
  12. Wineapple, Brenda (2019). The impeachers : The trial of Andrew Johnson and the dream of a just nation. New York: Random. ISBN 9780812998368. OCLC 1050280061.
External video
Booknotes interview with Wineapple on Hawthorne: A Life, January 4, 2004, C-SPAN
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