num_pages: 821
description: The life of Emily Dickinson, Richard B. Sewall's monumental biography of the great American poet (1830-1886), won the National Book Award when it was originally published in two volumes. Now available in a one-volume edition, it has been called "by far the best and most complete study of the poet's life yet to be written, the result of nearly twenty years of work" (The Atlantic).R.W.B. Lewis has hailed it as "a major event in American letters," adding that "Richard Sewall's biographical vision of Emily Dickinson is as complete as human scholarship, ingenuity, stylistic pungency, and common sense can arrive at."
language: English
title: The Life of Emily Dickinson
titlecomplete: The Life of Emily Dickinson
characters: Emily Dickinson
genres: Biography, Literary Criticism, Writing, Poetry, Literature, American History, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 361
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award
category: Biography
publisher: Harvard University Press