Brenda Wineapple

Brenda Wineapple is a prizewinning historian, literary critic, and essayist and the author of seven books. A recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize, among other honors. Her latest book, the best-selling Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation received the Morris D. Forkosch Award for Best Book of 2024 from the Center for Science Education, and in 2023, she was selected a Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.