Brenda Wineapple

Brenda Wineapple is the award-winning author of several books including 'The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation,' the timely telling of the first-ever impeachment of an American president, selected by the 'New York Times' nonfiction book critic as one of the 10 best nonfiction works of 2019 and that Ron Chernow called "superbly lyrical." Among her other books are 'Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877,' a 'New York Times' “100 Notable Books" that the 'Wall Street Journal' hailed as "magnificent'; 'White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson,' a National Book Critics Circle award finalist; and 'Hawthorne: A Life,' winner of the Ambassador Award. Her numerous honors include a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, two National Endowment Fellowships in the Humanities, and, most recently, a National Endowment Public Scholars Award. She has been named a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her essays and reviews regularly appear in such major publications such as 'The New York Times Book Review,' 'The New York Review of Books,' and 'The Wall Street Journal.'