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Brenda Wineapple is an American nonfiction writer, literary critic, and essayist. Her books include Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877; White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Hawthorne: A Life; Sister Brother Gertrude and Leo Stein; and Genêt: A Biography of Janet Flanner. A regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The Nation and other national publications, she is also the editor of The Selected Poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier and Nineteenth-Century American Writers on Writing.
Wineapple has received a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and two National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, she has been a Donald C. Gallup Fellow at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, and a fellow of the Indiana Institute of Arts and Letters. She has also served president of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, a literary advisor for the Library of America and for the Guggenheim foundation, and she is on the editorial board of The American Scholar magazine.
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