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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts.
She attended Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.
Dickinson lived a mostly reclusive life, rarely leaving her home.
She wrote over 1,800 poems, but only a handful were published in her lifetime.
Dickinson died on May 15, 1886, at the age of 55.
Her poems were posthumously published and have since become some of the most beloved and acclaimed in American literature.

A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within.