Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on 10 December 1830, and died in the same town on 15 May 1886. Dickinson is considered one of the greatest poets of all times, as well as a staple of modern American poetry, despite publishing only a dozen poems and not having gained any recognition when alive. Most of the poems she wrote – about 1,800 – were discovered after her death, some by her sister Vinnie and others by her niece Martha, and were then published between the 1890s and 1950s.