The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography

Fred Kaplan teaches at Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. He is the editor of The Essential Gore Vidal and the author of the biographies Henry James, Dickens, and Thomas Carlyle, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Kaplan lives in Brooklyn, New York. (Publisher Provided) Fred Kaplan show more (born 1937) is distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Kaplan grew up in the Bronx and attended Lafayette High School and Brooklyn College. He is the author of several biographies, including his book Thomas Carlyle which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2015, his biography of John Quincy Adams: American Visionary, became listed on the New York Times bestseller list. (Bowker Author Biography) show less