内容简介:Whitman's genius, passions, poetry, and androgynous sensibility entwined to create an exuberant life amid the turbulent American mid-nineteenth century. In vivid detail, Kaplan examines the mysterious selves of the enigmatic man who celebrated the freedom and dignity of the individual and sang the praises of democracy and the brotherhood of man.
作者简介:Justin Kaplan, a biographer and editor, is the author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Award. Among the many other books he has written or edited are Walt Whitman: A Life and Lincoln Steffens: A Biography. Kaplan is the general editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations; a contributor to the New York Times Book Review, New Republic, American Heritage, American Scholar, and the Yale Review; and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Cambridge and Truro, Massachusetts with his wife, Anne Bernays. They have three daughters and six grandchildren.