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Biographer (born 1937)
Fred Kaplan (born 1937) is distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at
Queens College and the Graduate Center of the
City University of New York .
[1]
Biography
He was born in 1937 in
The Bronx, New York , and attended
Lafayette High School and
Brooklyn College .
[2]
Books
He is the author of several biographies.
[3]
His book Thomas Carlyle was a finalist for the
National Book Critics Circle Award ,
[4] and the
Pulitzer Prize .
[5]
His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer . HarperCollins. 2022.
ISBN
9780062440037 .
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary , HarperCollins, 2014,
ISBN
9780061915413
Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer . HarperCollins. 2008.
ISBN
9780060773342 .
The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography . Doubleday. 2003.
ISBN
9780385477154 .
Gore Vidal: A Biography Doubleday, 1999,
ISBN
9780385477031 ; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012,
ISBN
9781408840726
Henry James: The Imagination of Genius, A Biography . Morrow. 1992.
ISBN
9780688090210 . ; Taylor & Francis US, 1999,
ISBN
9780801862717
Dickens: A Biography , William Morrow & Company, 1988,
ISBN
9780688043414
[6]
Sacred tears: sentimentality in Victorian literature , Princeton University Press, 1987,
ISBN
9780691067001
Thomas Carlyle: A Biography , Cornell University Press, 1983,
ISBN
9780801415081 ; University of California Press, 1993,
ISBN
9780520082007
Dickens and mesmerism: the hidden springs of fiction , Princeton University Press, 1975,
ISBN
9780691062914
John Elliotson on Mesmerism , Da Capo Press, (New York), 1982.
ISBN
9780306761676
References
^
"The Graduate Center, CUNY - Fred Kaplan" . Gc.cuny.edu. September 15, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2012 .
^ Tara George,
"He's a Star at Queens College" . New York Daily News , Dec 12, 1996.
^ Kaplan, Fred.
"Results for 'au:Kaplan, Fred,' " . Worldcat.org. Retrieved December 6, 2012 .
^
"All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists" . National Book Critics Circle. Archived from
the original on April 27, 2019. Retrieved February 11, 2013 .
^
"Biography" . The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved November 22, 2023 .
^ A. D. Hutter. (October 23, 1988).
"Boz Abounding DICKENS: A BIOGRAPHY by Fred Kaplan" . The Los Angeles Times . Archived from
the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2012 . Kaplan's critical insights into Dickens' work always concentrate on the connections between the life and related fictional projections of the self. The result is a critical reading of Dickens' works at once original and unified, always subordinated to the primary enterprise of biography itself.
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