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