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

Biography

He was born in 1937 in

The Bronx, New York The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New York ...

, 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 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. * * ''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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