BIOGRAPHY
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830,
Her father, Edward Dickinson was a lawyer in Amherst and a trustee of Amherst College, Emily Dickinson's grandfather, Samuel Dickinson, was one of the founders of Amherst College
Emily Dickinson left school as a teenager, eventually living a reclusive life on the family homestead. There, she secretly created bundles of poetry and wrote hundreds of letters. Due to a discovery by her sister Lavinia, Dickinson's remarkable work was published after her death on May 15, 1886 in Amherst, and she is now considered one of the most important 19th century American poets.