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Fred Kaplan (biographer)

Biographer (born 1937)

For the journalist and columnist, see Fred Kaplan (journalist).

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]

  • His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer. HarperCollins. 2022. ISBN .
  • John Quincy Adams: American Visionary, HarperCollins, 2014, ISBN 9780061915413
  • Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer. HarperCollins. 2008. ISBN .
  • The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography. Doubleday Fred kaplan!