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With Walt Whitman in Camden, Volume 7

July 7, 1890 - February 10 1891

With Walt Whitman in Camden, Volume 7( )
Author: Traubel, Horace
Editor: MacIsaac, Robert
Chapman, Jeanne
Foreword by: Kaplan, Justin
ISBN:978-0-8093-1757-8
Publication Date:Jan 1992
Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $49.00
Book Description:

This is the seventh volume of the daily record, over the last four years of Walt Whitman's life, of his conversations with his young friend and literary executor Horace Traubel.

Traubel managed Whitman's literary and personal affairs and assisted him in the preparation for publication of the final (Deathbed) edition of Leaves of Grass. Each evening he wrote down a brief description of how Whitman appeared to him that day and then recorded all the...
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Book Details
Pages:536
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry
Literary Collections / Letters
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 8.75 x 1.5 Inches
Book Weight:1.15 Pounds
Author Biography
Traubel, Horace (Author)
Justin Kaplan was born in Manhattan, New York on September 5, 1925. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Harvard University, followed by graduate work in the field there, but he left before earning a doctorate to work as a freelance writer and book editor. His first book, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1967 and a National Book Award. His other works include Lincoln Steffens: A Biography, When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age, and Walt Whitman: A Life, which won a National Book Award. He also wrote books with his wife Anne Bernays including The Language of Names and Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York. He was the editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. He died from complications of Parkinson's disease on March 2, 2014 at the age of 88.

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