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December 1, 2009
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White Heat
The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Written by Brenda Wineapple


Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 1, 2009
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-45630-4 (0-307-45630-7)

Brenda Wineapple tells an extraordinary story about poetry, politics, and love, and sheds new light not only on the famously elusive poet, but on the roiling America of the nineteenth century.
As the Civil War raged in 1862, an unusual relationship was born between the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and Thomas... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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White Heat
The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Written by Brenda Wineapple


Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4401-6 (1-4000-4401-4)

The first book to portray one of the most remarkable friendships in American letters, that of Emily Dickinson—recluse, poet—and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, minister, literary figure, active abolitionist.

Their friendship began in 1862. The Civil War was raging. Dickinson was thirty-one; Higginson, thirty-eight. A former pastor at the Free Church of Worcester, Massachusetts... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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Hawthorne
A Life
Written by Brenda Wineapple


Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: June 29, 2004
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7291-7 (0-8129-7291-0)

“Brenda Wineapple illuminates Hawthorne’s complexities without demystifying the man. He remains one of the most intriguing American writers: dark, guilty, erotic, and psychologically acute–qualities that Wineapple deftly explores.” –Margot Peters

Handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof until he was approached, then playful, cordial, Nathaniel Hawthorne was as mercurial and double-edged as his writing... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover.

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Representative Men
Seven Lectures
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introduction by Brenda Wineapple


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7005-0 (0-8129-7005-5)

Introduction by Brenda Wineapple

In 1845 Ralph Waldo Emerson began a series of lectures and writings in which he limned six figures who embodied the principles and aspirations of a still-young American republic. Emerson offers timeless meditations on the value of individual greatness, reconnecting readers with the everyday virtues of his “Representative... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Exam Copy
Hawthorne
A Life
Written by Brenda Wineapple


Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 30, 2003
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-40044-5 (0-375-40044-3)

“Brenda Wineapple illuminates Hawthorne’s complexities without demystifying the man. He remains one of the most intriguing American writers: dark, guilty, erotic, and psychologically acute–qualities that Wineapple deftly explores.” –Margot Peters

Handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof until he was approached, then playful, cordial, Nathaniel Hawthorne was as mercurial and double-edged as his writing... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.
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