Emily Dickinson was almost unknown as a poet in her lifetime, but she became famous in the 20th century. This may - or may not - be a photo of her in her later years.
Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886) was an Americanpoet. She is known as "one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time." She is famous for writing almost 1,800 poems. Only a few of them were printed while she was living. Because she wrote in a different way, other people changed parts of her poems before the world could read them. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, lived her whole life there, and died there after a long illness. People describe her poems as lyrical and original. She grew a garden of herbs and wild flowers for their healing abilities and often talked about them in her poems.