Natalie Dykstra is the author of Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life and a new book Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner. Her work on Isabella Stewart Gardner has won a Public Scholars Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and an inaugural Robert and Ina Caro Research/Travel Fellowship sponsored by the Biographers International Organization (BIO). Dykstra, emerita professor of English at Hope College in Michigan, lives with her husband in Waltham, MA.
Natalie Dykstra
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