A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Jo - Christopher Benfey

Christopher Benfey is the Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College and the author of the award-winning book A Summer of Hummingbirds . He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review , the New Republic , and the New York Review of Books . He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.