Brenda Wineapple’s books include White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times “Notable Book,” as well as Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner; Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein; and Hawthorne: A Life. A Guggenheim fellow, she received a Pushcart Prize in 2009, and her new anthology, Nineteenth-Century American Writers on Writing, will be published next fall. She is currently writing a book about America, 1848-1877.