Walt Whitman: A Life (Perennial Classics): A Life – A Moving Biography of America's Greatest Poet and His Bold, Exuberant Genius?National Book Award Winner

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.