Fred Kaplan (born 1937) is distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at

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and the Graduate Center of the

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Biography

He was born in 1937 in

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, and attended Lafayette High School and

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls nearly 14,000 students on a campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall ...

. He was stabbed in New York in 1996, but made a recovery.

Books

He is the author of several biographies. His book ''Thomas Carlyle'' was a finalist for the

National Book Critics Circle Award The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fo ...

. * * ''John Quincy Adams: American Visionary'', HarperCollins, 2014, * * * ''Gore Vidal: A Biography'' Doubleday, 1999, ; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012, * ; Taylor & Francis US, 1999, * ''Dickens: A Biography'', William Morrow & Company, 1988, * ''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.

References

External links

Behind the Book interview
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