Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was born on 10 December 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA to Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross.
She was a famous American poet. Some of her poems include Because I Could Not Stop For Death and I'm Nobody, Who Are You?
== Early Life ==
Emily Dickinson was born to a middle class but not wealthy family who's father was a local lawyer in the town of Amherst, 2 hours west of Boston. She lived her whole life in Massachusetts. 
She was one of the three children, William Austin Dickinson and Lavinia Norcross Dickinson.
During her teenage years, Dickinson had a fairly fine education. 
== Poetry ==
Dickinson is known for her short poems and the contant use of dashes. Her rhyme sequence was often abcb.
Between 1858-1865, she wrote over 800 poems. At that point she became confined to her room and rarely left it. Even when her father's funeral took place in 1874. 
Dickinson published only around ten poems during her lifetime. It was only her sister, who after her death in 1886, discovered more than 1800 poems in her room. 
== Death ==
She died due to  Bright's disease in 1886.