Brenda Wineapple, Author . Knopf $30 (528p) ISBN 978-0-375-40044-5
One of the great American writers of the 19th century never fully believed in his profession. For Nathaniel Hawthorne, writing was "a source of shame as much as pleasure and a necessity he could neither forgo nor entirely approve," says...
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Brenda Wineapple, Author . Knopf $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4401-6
In 1862, Emily Dickinson wrote to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a noted man of letters and radical activist for abolition and women’s rights, asking if he would look at her poems. He did and recognized immediately their strange power. As...
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Brenda Wineapple, Author University of Nebraska Press $19.95 (369p) ISBN 978-0-8032-9740-1
Wineapple's intimate portrait skillfully situates Flanner (1892-1978), the New Yorker 's award-winning correspondent from Paris, at the center of that city's literary life. Photos. (Dec.)
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Brenda Wineapple, Author Ticknor & Fields $24.95 (361p) ISBN 978-0-89919-442-4
While Flanner (1892-1978) saw herself as an observer of the expatriate community in Paris during the 1920s and '30s, first-time author Wineapple's intimate portrait situates the New Yorker 's award-winning foreign correspondent at the center of the...
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Brenda Wineapple, Author Putnam Publishing Group $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14103-4
Just before WW I, the suffocating brother-sister relationship of the Steins ended in Paris. They never again spoke to each other. Gertrude Stein's gift for self-promotion has largely created her image. Now Wineapple (the biographer of Janet Flanner--
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Brenda Wineapple. HarperCollins, $35 (736p) ISBN 978-0-06-123457-6
This lavish record of the eventful decades surrounding the Civil War explores a divided nation through the personalities of its growing and ideologically diversifying populace. Lincoln emerges as the iconic celebrity of the era’s central conflict,...
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Brenda Wineapple. Random, $30 (576p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9836-8
As scholar Wineapple (White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson) persuasively argues in this detailed and lucidly written history, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, who ascended to the presidency after a mere six...
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Brenda Wineapple. Random House, $38 (544p) ISBN 978-0-593-22992-7
In this gripping and expansive reexamination of the Scopes Monkey Trial, a lightning-rod debate over what was allowed to be taught in public schools caps a decades-long run of divisiveness, which eroded Americans’ belief in the power of democracy....
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