The Poet and the Poem
2025-26 Series

Featured Natalie Dykstra

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Natalie Dykstra is the author of Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life, which won a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship and was a finalist for the 2013 Massachusetts Book Award.  For her recent book, Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, she received a Public Scholars grant from the NEH and the inaugural Robert and Ina Caro Research Fellowship from the Biographers International Organization.  She has been a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society since 2011 and is an emerita professor of English at Hope College.  She lives with her husband near Boston. She won the National Marfield Award for writing in the arts given by The Arts Club of Washington, D.C. in 2025.

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