A regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The Nation and other national publications, she is also the editor of The Selected Poetry of
John Greenleaf Whittier (a volume in the Library of America's American Poets Project) and Nineteenth-Century American Writers on Writing (a volume in The Writers' World, edited by
Edward Hirsch).[1]
Genêt: A Biography of
Janet Flanner. New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1989. It is the first and only biography of the woman who wrote "The Paris Letter" for The New Yorker for fifty years, starting at its founding in 1925.[3]
Sister Brother:
Gertrude and
Leo Stein. Putnam's, 1996; University of Nebraska, 1997. It is a dual biography of the relationship between Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo Stein, whose collection of modern art was unparalleled and whose salon in Paris was the celebrated gathering place of writers and artists.[4]
Hawthorne: A Life. Knopf, 2003; Random House, 2004.
Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877. Harper, 2013. It was named a New York Times "Notable Book".[7][8] It was also listed as one of the best nonfiction books in 2013 by Kirkus Reviews and Bookpage and received a Publishers Weekly starred "Review of the Week".[9][10]
The Impeachers: The Trial of
Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. Random House, 2019.[11] It received a
starred review from Publishers Weekly.[12]
^Wineapple, Brenda (2019). The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. New York: Random House.
ISBN9780812998368.
OCLC1050280061.