Yes! and as promised, Deborah Lutz is back in High Falls with her new biography, the first comprehensive biography of Emily Brontë in over two decades, This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, a Life (2026).

As her publisher writes, “Emily Jane Brontë was just 27 when she started writing the wayward and electric novel Wuthering Heights. Three years later, she was dead. Out of step with her own time and remembered as the strangest of the Brontë sisters, there's much that we don't know about her - most of her papers were destroyed after her death. But as Deborah Lutz explores in this, one of the first biographies of Emily in 20 years, the writing that has survived seethes with storm and strife and with the beautifully desolate landscape of Yorkshire.”

Join us! in celebrating this extraordinary book with the author who brings us the latest scholarship on Emily Bronte, the 19th century novel, and the Victorian Age.

Deborah Lutz is the author of six books, most recently This Dark Night: Emily Brontë, A Life. A previous book, The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects, was shortlisted for the PEN/Weld Award for Biography. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library, and has twice been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships. She teaches at Pennsylvania State University as the George and Barbara Kelly Professor in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature. Past honors include fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation.