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Occupation
  
Biographer

Name
  
Fred Kaplan

Role
  
Professor


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Alma mater
  
Brooklyn College (B.A.) Columbia University (Ph.D.)

Education
  
Brooklyn College, Columbia University, University of Nottingham

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Nominations
  
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography

Books
  
Lincoln: The Biograph, John Quincy Adams: A, Gore Vidal: A Biography, The singular Mark Twain, Dickens: A Biography

Similar People
  
Oswald Jacoby, Charles Goren, Henry James

Fred Kaplan (born 1937) is distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Contents

Biography

He was born in 1937 in The Bronx, New York City, and attended Lafayette High School and Brooklyn College

Books

He is the author of several biographies. His book Thomas Carlyle was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

  • 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
  • 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

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