First full-length biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century American culture

SUSAN CAMPBELL is the author of the memoir Dating Jesus: Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl and coauthor of Connecticut Curiosities. She has appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning, the BBC, and WNPR. Her column about the March 1998 shootings at the Connecticut Lottery headquarters in Newington was part of the Hartford Courant's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the tragedy. She lives in East Haven, Connecticut.