Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and died in 1886 and lived most of her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Along with Walt Whitman, she is considered one of the most original and influential American poets of the 19th Century. Only seven of her poems were published during her lifetime, but her sister found hundreds of poems among her possessions after her death.
She is buried in Amherst. My daughter Liana, a film major at the University of Miami, visited the gravesite in March 2007 and took this photograph.
Photo by Liana Minassian
For information about the Emily Dickinson Museum and House in Amherst, MA:
