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Brenda Wineapple

Brenda Wineapple is the author, most recently, of Hawthorne: A Life (Random House) and is writing a book about Emily Dickinson.

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  • The Wharton School

    May 10, 2007 Subscribe

    A new biography describes how Edith Wharton transformed her obsessions into stories of loss, regret and entrapment.

2006

  • A Life of His Own

    November 22, 2006 Subscribe

    Victoria Glendinning's biography of Leonard Woolf looks at a remarkable public intellectual whose life and work were eclipsed by his more famous spouse.

  • The Sunkist Utopian

    July 27, 2006

    One hundred years ago, Upton Sinclair exposed the meatpacking industry. Three new books expose Sinclair as an activist dreamer with a messianic streak.

2005

  • Nancy Has Two Mommies

    November 30, 2005

    Nancy Drew has been a fixture in young girls' lives since 1930. But the continuing appeal of this spunky American icon--never sad, wrinkled or misunderstood--is both heartwarming and a little scary.

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