sentences:  "The Life of Emily Dickinson", published in 1974, won the U.S. National Book Award in Biography.It dispelled many myths about the poet, especially her depiction as the "Nun of Amherst", a neurotic lovelorn woman too fragile for the world who turned to poetry as solace for an unhappy life.However, as Sewall was named the executor of Millicent Todd's estate and worked significantly from her papers, the biography has been criticized by Dickinson biographer Lyndall Gordon as being too influenced by the image of Dickinson created by Mabel Loomis and Millicent Todd, supposedly passing along a skewed perspective of Emily and Susan Dickinson.