Brontë, Charlotte
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) ranks among the world's greatest writers. Born into a poor, religious family she was nevertheless filled with unbridled passion, renegade ambition, and astounding talent. She defied the expectations of her age by succeeding as a woman writer like few before her. A full-time writer after her early career as a teacher and governess, she died at the age of thirty-nine from complications during her first pregnancy in 1855.
Baer, Ulrich
Ulrich Baer holds a BA from Harvard and a PhD from Yale. A widely published author, he is University Professor at New York University, and has been awarded Guggenheim, Getty, and Alexander von Humboldt fellowships. He has written numerous books on poetry, photography and cultural politics, and edited and translated Rainer Maria Rilke's The Dark Interval, Letters on Life, and Letters to a Young Poet. He hosts leading writers and artists to talk about big ideas and great books on the Think About It podcast. In the Warbler Press Contemplations series, he has published: Nietzsche, Rilke, Dickinson, Wilde, and Shakespeare on Love.