Brenda Wineapple is the author most recently?of The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation?(Random House), which recounts the first-ever impeachment of an American president.??Selected by?New York Times?Jennifer Szalai as one of the ten best books of 2019, and it was also named one of the?New York Times?"100 Notable Books of 2019" and called "superbly lyrical."
Wineapple's other books include Ecstatic Nation: Confidence,Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877, one of the?New York Times?“100 Notable Books of 2013," which the?Wall Street Journal?hailed as "magnificent,"?and?White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award; Sister Brother Gertrude and Leo Stein; and Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Life, winner of the Ambassador Award for Best Biography. In 2019, she published Whitman Speaks, an edition of the poet's pithy observations about writing, literature, and America. The recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, two National Endowment Fellowships in the Humanities, and an NEH Public Scholars Award, she regularly contributes to major publications such as the?New York Times Book Review?and?The New York Review of Books?and teaches in the MFA programs at Columbia and the New School.
Adjunct Professor, Writing