Emily & Herman: A Literary Romance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781611458305)

The manuscript of this novel was discovered by John J. Healey in a box left by his grandfather, Professor Vincent P. Healey, after his death. This engaging work of fiction is a romantic account in which four iconic figures of American Letters play a leading role.

In the summer of 1851 Herman Melville was finishing Moby Dick on his family farm in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. Surrounded by his mother, sisters and pregnant wife, it was a calm and productive season until his neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne lured him to Amherst. There they met twenty-year-old Emily Dickinson and her brother Austin. On a whim the two distinguished authors invited the Dickinson siblings to accompany them on a trip to Boston and New York. In Manhattan they met journalist Walt Whitman and William Johnson, a runaway slave, and it was there, despite their efforts to control it, that Emily and Herman fell in love.

This, for the first time, is their story.

Author: John J. Healey
ISBN-10: 1611458307
ISBN-13: 9781611458305
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2013
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.97h x 4.92w x 0.89d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2013 pg. 30
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2013