About the Author

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.

Reviews

&#8220Whitman emerges from this biography live and kicking--hugely human, enormously attractive.” -- Newsweek&#8220Not only readable, but dramatic.” -- New York Times Book Review&#8220Kaplan gives us flesh and blood Whitman in this fine and sensitive biography.” -- Boston Globe&#8220A buoyant, energizing book.” -- Nation&#8220Brilliant.” -- Publishers Weekly