Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was one of America's most influential poets, known for her unconventional punctuation, compressed style, and exploration of themes including love, death, and nature. A reclusive figure who rarely left her family home in Amherst, she wrote nearly 1,800 poems during her lifetime, yet only ten were published before her death. Her work, discovered posthumously, revolutionized American poetry and earned her a Pulitzer Prize in 1982—the first awarded posthumously.