Biographies and Related Historical Works

• Benfey, Christopher.  A Summer of Hummingbirds:  Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, & Martin Johnson Heade. 2008.
• Bianchi, Martha Dickinson. Emily Dickinson Face to Face: Unpublished Letters with Notes and Reminiscences. Boston:  1932.
• Bingham, Millicent Todd.  Emily Dickinson's Home:  Letters of Edward Dickinson and His Family.  1955.
• Farr, Judith. The Passion of Emily Dickinson. 1998.
• ----. The Gardens of Emily Dickinson. 2005
• -----. (preface) Emily Dickinson's Herbarium: A Facsimilie Edition. 2006.
• Gordon, Lyndall. Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds. 2011.
• Grabher, ed. The Emily Dickinson Handbook. 2009.
• Habegger, Alfred. My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson. 2001.
• Kirk, Connie Ann. Emily Dickinson: A Biography.  2001.
• Longsworth, Polly. The World of Emily Dickinson.  1990.
• Lundin, Roger. Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief.  1998.
• Pollak, Vivian r., ed. A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson. 2004.
• Sewall, Richard B. The Life of Emily Dickinson., 1974.(Winner of National Book Award)
• Sierra, Patricia. Emily Dickinson: Beyond the Myth. 2009.
• Whicher, George Frisbie. This Was a Poet: A Critical Biography of Emily Dickinson. 1938. Reprinted with an introduction by Richard Sewall by Amherst College Press, 1992.
• Wineapple, Brenda.  White Heat:  The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.  2008.
• Wolff, Cynthia G. Emily Dickinson. 1986.

Recent Editions of Emily Dickinson’s Poems (in chronological order)

• The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. Thomas Johnson. )Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1955).
• The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson. Ed. R.W. Franklin. (Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1981).
• The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. R.W. (Franklin. Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1998).
• The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (New York: Modern Library, 2004), includes an introduction by Billy Collins;
• Essential Dickinson (New York: Ecco, 1996),  includes an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates.
• The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Reading Edition. Ed. R.W. (Franklin. Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1999).
• Radical Scatters: Emily Dickinson's Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886. Ed. Marta Werner.  )University of Michigan Press, 1999). 

 Emily Dickinson’s Letters

• The Letters of Emily Dickinson. Ed. Thomas Johnson and Theodora V. Ward. , 1958.
• Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters. Ed. Thomas Johnson.  1971.
• Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson. Ed. Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith.  1998.
• Reading Emily Dickinson's Letters: Critical Essays. Ed. Jane Donahue Eberwein. 2011.