| 1974 | The Life of Emily Dickinson. The work of twenty years of research, the Yale English professor's two-volume National Book Award-winning biography uncovers new information about the poet's life and challenges the myth that Dickinson was a neurotic recluse who turned to poetry as a solace for an unhappy life. Sewall shows Dickinson as far from a hermit who deliberately chose poetry as her vocation early in life. |