Carolyn Dever is professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College, and a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. Her most recent book, One Soul We Divided: A Critical Edition of the Diary of Michael Field, was published in early 2024 by Princeton University Press. It follows Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field, published in 2022 by Princeton.
Carolyn Dever
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