Fred Kaplan (biographer)

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, and attended Lafayette High School and Brooklyn College.

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, and the Pulitzer Prize.


 * John Quincy Adams: American Visionary, HarperCollins, 2014, ISBN 9780061915413
 * Gore Vidal: A Biography Doubleday, 1999, ISBN 9780385477031; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012, ISBN 9781408840726
 * ; Taylor & Francis US, 1999, ISBN 9780801862717
 * Dickens: A Biography, William Morrow & Company, 1988, ISBN 9780688043414
 * Sacred tears: sentimentality in Victorian literature, Princeton University Press, 1987, ISBN 9780691067001
 * Thomas Carlyle: A Biography, Cornell University Press, 1983, ISBN 9780801415081; University of California Press, 1993, ISBN 9780520082007
 * Dickens and mesmerism: the hidden springs of fiction, Princeton University Press, 1975, ISBN 9780691062914
 * John Elliotson on Mesmerism, Da Capo Press, (New York), 1982. ISBN 9780306761676
 * Thomas Carlyle: A Biography, Cornell University Press, 1983, ISBN 9780801415081; University of California Press, 1993, ISBN 9780520082007
 * Dickens and mesmerism: the hidden springs of fiction, Princeton University Press, 1975, ISBN 9780691062914
 * John Elliotson on Mesmerism, Da Capo Press, (New York), 1982. ISBN 9780306761676