White Heat. The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Chronicles the remarkable friendship between reclusive, unconventional poet Emily Dickinson and Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a radical abolitionist, reformer, and writer, who became responsible for the publication of her poetry after her death, a relationship that that they carried on through their correspondence for more than twenty years. 20,000 first printing.