Fred Kaplan (biographer) explained
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]
He was stabbed in New York in 1996, but made a recovery.[3]
Books
He is the author of several biographies.[4] His book Thomas Carlyle was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award,[5] and the Pulitzer Prize.[6]
- Book: His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer. HarperCollins. 2022. 9780062440037.
- John Quincy Adams: American Visionary, HarperCollins, 2014,
- Book: Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer. HarperCollins. 2008. 9780060773342.
- Book: The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography. Doubleday. 2003. 9780385477154 .
- Gore Vidal: A Biography Doubleday, 1999, ; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012,
- Book: Henry James: The Imagination of Genius, A Biography. Morrow. 1992. 9780688090210. ; Taylor & Francis US, 1999,
- Dickens: A Biography, William Morrow & Company, 1988, [7]
- Sacred tears: sentimentality in Victorian literature, Princeton University Press, 1987,
- Thomas Carlyle: A Biography, Cornell University Press, 1983, ; University of California Press, 1993,
- Dickens and mesmerism: the hidden springs of fiction, Princeton University Press, 1975,
- John Elliotson on Mesmerism, Da Capo Press, (New York), 1982.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: The Graduate Center, CUNY - Fred Kaplan . Gc.cuny.edu . 2011-09-15 . 2012-12-06 . July 25, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230725160411/https://www.gc.cuny.edu/english . live .
- Tara George, "He's a Star at Queens College" . New York Daily News, Dec 12, 1996.
- News: Urban Life, Urban Danger: Scholar Stabbed on the Subway. Janny. Scott. The New York Times . December 12, 1996. NYTimes.com. May 21, 2024. April 29, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240429130215/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/12/nyregion/urban-life-urban-danger-scholar-stabbed-on-the-subway.html. live.
- Web site: Kaplan . Fred . Results for 'au:Kaplan, Fred,' . Worldcat.org . 2012-12-06 . December 10, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191210052634/http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AKaplan%2C+Fred%2C&qt=hot_author . live .
- Web site: All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists. National Book Critics Circle. 11 February 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20190427180857/http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards/. 27 April 2019. dead.
- Web site: Biography . The Pulitzer Prizes . Nov 22, 2023 . October 25, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181025185944/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/222 . live .
- News: Boz Abounding DICKENS: A BIOGRAPHY by Fred Kaplan . 1988-10-23 . 2012-12-06. 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.. A. D. Hutter.. The Los Angeles Times . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160306222435/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/doc/280601041.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct%2023,%201988&author=A.%20D.%20Hutter&pub=Los%20Angeles%20Times%20(pre-1997%20Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=&desc=Boz%20Abounding%20DICKENS:%20A%20BIOGRAPHY%20by%20Fred%20Kaplan%20(William%20Morrow:%20$24.95;%20592%20pp.;%20Illustrated) . Mar 6, 2016 .
