 Biographer Brenda Wineapple
Guest Lecturer, Replenishing the Shelves.
Brenda Wineapple's biography Hawthorne: A Life won the prestigious Ambassador Award of the English-Speaking Union for Best Biography of 2003 and the Julia Howe Award of the Boston Book Club. Her most recent work, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson has garnered praise in critical reviews since its publication earlier this year.
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The Emily Dickinson Museum's Replenishing the Shelves Lecture Series continues with guest biographer, Brenda Wineapple, whose lecture: "He Lived the Life of Ambush: Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Beyond" explores the connections between poet Emily Dickinson and writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The lecture will be held at the Amherst Woman's Club, Triangle Street in Amherst, on Thursday, October 16, 2008, at 7:30 p.m. A book-signing and light refreshments will follow. There is no charge for this program but donations are appreciated.
Although Emily Dickinson and Nathaniel Hawthone never met, the Amherst poet and her family read and admired his work. As Dickinson remarked to a friend: "Hawthorne appalls, entices." During this lecture, Brenda Wineapple will discuss Hawthorne's enticing appeal to his nineteenth-century audience and share highlights of his biography.
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