Is it true that Emily Dickinson was a recluse?

Emily Dickinson, one of America's best poets, was indeed reclusive. She rarely left her home in Amherst, Massachusetts, and sometimes would not even come downstairs from her bedroom to greet visiting friends. Nevertheless, she wasn't a total hermit. Emily did correspond with others. She also graduated from Amherst Academy and attended Mount Holyoke Seminary for one year. Emily's passion was for the inner life. By the time of her death in 1886, she had produced almost 1,800 poems and left them in neatly tied packets, carefully dated.

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Who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature?

Edith Wharton was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for "The Age of Innocence."

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Did Grandma Moses really start painting when she was 77?

Yes. Prior to becoming an acclaimed artist, Grandma Moses was a farm wife and mother of ten (five of whom lived past infancy). So she was pretty busy. She actually took up painting because her arthritis made needlework difficult. By the time of her death at age 101, she'd produced nearly 1,500 paintings and had some of them exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. So if you're pretty sure you have an artist in you, there's still time to find her!

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