another biography; they are already there and sufficient. I didn't think I would discover new poems or letters. But this pairing gave me a way to write about [Emily] Dickinson that seemed fresh, that used her poems, her letters, that allowed her to speak for herself. . . . I also thought that [Thomas] Higginson could carry the plot. He does so much, while she provides so much insight.from The Boston Globe: Light on a poet's imagination, and an era
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Wineapple's book is not the first about the friendship between Dickenson and Higginson -- Anna Mary Wells' "Dear Preceptor" (1963) was that. Wells reached much the same conclusions as Wineapple -- esentially, that Higginson wasn't nearly so bad (for Emily Dickenson, or for her poetry) as his reputation suggests. Why does Wineapple not acknowledge her predecessor? The book is in her bibliography.
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