According to Wikipedia, Christopher Benfey is an American literary critic and Emily Dickinson scholar. He is the Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. Early life and education Benfey was born in Merion, Pennsylvania, but spent most of his childhood in Richmond, Indiana. and attended The Putney School. His father was a German immigrant and his mother was from North Carolina. He began his undergraduate studies at Earlham College, where his father, Otto Theodor Benfey, was a professor in the Chemistry department, and completed his B.A. at Guilford College. Benfey holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University.
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Published Works
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan (2003) (38)
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade (2008) (3)
Emily Dickinson: Lives of a Poet (1986) (3)
The Heart in Winter (2006) (2)
The Dickinsons of Amherst (2001) (2)
He's Got Mail (2004) (2)
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival (2012) (2)
Mark Rothko: Towards the Light in the Chapel by Annie Cohen-Solal (2015) (1)
Nowhere wholly at home. (1997) (1)
Artists, Intellectuals, and World War II (2006) (1)
Bright Young Things (1999) (1)
Walks with Robert Walser by Carl Seelig, translated by Anne Posten; Girlfriends, Ghosts and Other Stories by Robert Walser, translated by Tom Whalen, Nicole Köngeter and Annette Wiesner (2018) (0)
The importance of Ernest (1993) (0)
Made for kicking (1993) (0)
American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South (2008) (0)
