Walt Whitman: A Life

Winner of the National Book Award

"Whitman emerges from this biography alive and kicking--hugely human, enormously attractive." --Newsweek

A moving, penetrating, sharply focused portrait of America's greatest poet--his genius, his passions, his androgynous sensibility--an exuberant life entwined with the turbulent history of mid-nineteenth century America.

In vivid detail, Justin Kaplan, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, examines the mysterious selves of this enigmatic man whose bold voice of joy and sexual liberation embraced a growing nation. . . and exposes the quintessential Whitman, that perfect poet whose astonishing verse made "words sing, dance, kiss, copulate" for an entire world to hear.

Author: Justin Kaplan
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 07/08/2003
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780060535117

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/15/2003 pg. 97
Library Journal 01/01/2004 pg. 170

About the Author
Kaplan, Justin: -

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.