Walt Whitman: A Life (Perennial Classics Series) » (First Perennial Classics Edition)

Justin Kaplan is also the author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. He is general editor of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is married to the novelist Anne Bernays. They have three daughters and six grandchildren, and live in Cambridge and Truro, Massachusetts.

Whitman's genius, passions, poetry, and androgynous sensibility entwined to create an exuberant life amid the turbulent American mid-nineteenth century. In vivid detail, Kaplan examines the mysterious selves of the enigmatic man who celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy and the brotherhood of man.

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Kaplan's 1980 National Book Award- winning portrait of Uncle Walt draws Whitman's personality from his works to present the whole man. (LJ 9/15/03) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.