Brenda Wineapple

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Brenda Wineapple
Born Boston, Massachusetts
Alma mater Brandeis University,
University of Wisconsin–Madison
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectArts
Notable awards Marfield Prize

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

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Biography

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she graduated from Brandeis University, and University of Wisconsin. [1]

In 2014, Wineapple received a Literature 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, [1] she is also an elected Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University 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 teaches in the Master of Fine Arts programs at Columbia University's School of the Arts and at the New School in New York City. [2] She was previously the Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, and its Writer-in-Residence. She has also taught at Sarah Lawrence College and Union College in Schenectady, New York, and in the summer MFA program of Johns Hopkins University in Florence, Italy. [3]

She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review , The Nation and The New York Review of Books. [4] 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). [5]

She is married to the composer Michael Dellaira. [6]

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Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg Booknotes interview with Wineapple on Hawthorne: A Life, January 4, 2004, C-SPAN