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Forging Emily Dickinson, murderously.(BOOKS)(ON BOOKS)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20020519
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Byline: Colin Walters, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

It is in a way only half a coincidence that Mark Hofmann, who succeeded in forging a purportedly new poem by Emily Dickinson which was accepted by Sotheby's for auction and acquired by the Jones Library in Amherst, Mass., went on trial for murder in 1986, 100 years after the poet died in 1886.

Richard Sewell, the great Dickinson scholar, once remarked that there was little that was clear cut about the life of Emily. On the one hand, she lived in seclusion with her brother Austin and his wife Sue Dickinson. On the other hand, ...

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