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Julie Dobrow

Julie Dobrow is a professor at Tufts University, where she is also the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Her last book, After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America’s Greatest Poet (WW Norton, 2018), a mother/daughter biography of the two women most responsible for initially publishing Emily Dickinson’s poetry and crafting the image of her we have today, was a finalist for the Plutarch Award in Biography and long-listed for a Pen/Bograd Weld Award. In addition to her biography work and academic writing, Dobrow has worked professionally as a journalist, her work appearing in the Boston Globe Magazine, Huffington Post and other publications. She lives with her family outside of Boston.

 

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