Emily Ogden

Emily Ogden is the author of, most recently, Darkness Becomes Bright: On the Brief Life and Immortal Art of Edgar Allan Poe. An essayist and specialist in nineteenth-century American literature, she has received a Guggenheim fellowship, a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and a Mellon Fellowship in the Columbia Society of Fellows. Ogden is Professor of English at the University of Virginia.