Webster, Brenda

Brenda Webster is the author of two controversial and oft-anthologized critical studies, Yeats: A Psychoanalytic Study (Stanford) and Blake's Prophetic Psychology (Macmillan), two novels, Sins of the Mothers and Paradise Farm, and the award-winning memoir, The Last Good Freudian. She is currently the president of PEN West. Born and raised in New York, Webster now splits her time between Berkeley and Rome.