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Brenda Wineapple

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Brenda Wineapple
BornBoston, Massachusetts
Alma materBrandeis University,
University of Wisconsin–Madison
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectArts
Notable awardsMarfield Prize

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

Biography

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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]

Works

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Wineapple elected member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences". Union College. 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  2. ^ Glasberg, Eve (2024-09-04). "Why Is the Scopes Trial Still Relevant?". Columbia News. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  3. ^ "Wineapple, Brenda". CUNY Graduate Center. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  4. ^ "Brenda Wineapple". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  5. ^ "Brenda Wineapple". Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  6. ^ Wineapple, Brenda (2013). "Biography". brendawineapple.com/. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
  7. ^ Wineapple, Brenda. Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner with Ticknor and Fields (1992, University of Nebraska Press).
  8. ^ "Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein". Bison Books (University of Nebraska Press). Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  9. ^ White Heat reviews on RandomHouse.ca[permanent dead link]
  10. ^ "National Book Critics Circle: 2008 Biography Finalist White Heat, by Brenda Wineapple - Critical Mass Blog". Archived from the original on August 21, 2016. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  11. ^ Reynolds, David S. (August 9, 2013). "Patriotic Roar", New York Times Book Review.
  12. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2013". The New York Times. 8 December 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  13. ^ "Best Nonfiction Books of 2013". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  14. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877 by Brenda Wineapple. HarperCollins, $35 (736 pages) ISBN 978-0-06-123457-6". Retrieved January 23, 2017.
  15. ^ "Nonfiction book review: The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation". www.publishersweekly.com. March 26, 2019. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
  16. ^ Wineapple, Brenda (2019). The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. New York: Random House. ISBN 9780812998368. OCLC 1050280061.
  17. ^ Wineapple, Brenda, "'I Have Let Whitman Alone': Horace Traubel's monumental chronicle of Whitman’s reflections, ruminations, analyses, and affirmations", The New York Review of Books, April 18, 2019.
  18. ^ Stewart, Matthew (2024-08-11). "Book Review: 'Keeping the Faith,' by Brenda Wineapple". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  19. ^ Kaag, John (2024-08-29). "What a 100-Year-Old Trial Reveals About America". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
External videos
video icon Booknotes interview with Wineapple on Hawthorne: A Life, January 4, 2004, C-SPAN
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