Emily Dickinson is one of my favorite poets, but she was as crazy as Howard Hughes, Vincent Van Gogh, or Edgar Allen Poe.
Why was she so crazy. All i really know about her is that she is an american poet.
She dressed all in white, refused to leave her bedroom, and only sold 18 poems while she was alive, out of 1800 that she wrote.  This is the textbook definition of a hermit or recluse.
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. 
Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, into a prominent family with strong ties to its community. After studying at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she briefly attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst.
Evidence suggests that Dickinson lived much of her life in isolation. Considered an eccentric by locals, she developed a penchant for white clothing
an all-girls school for grades 6 to 12 in Wellesley, Massachusetts that boasts an impressive list of alumnae. There she studied mostly English, History, and Creative Writing. Her favorite poets included William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, but it was Allen Ginsberg's "Howl and Other Poems" which she carried in her purse through tenth grade.
For her bachelor's degree Olds returned to California where she earned her BA at Stanford University in 1964. Following this Olds once