Gore Vidal: A Biography
by Fred Kaplan
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- Hardcover
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- Used Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385477031
- ISBN 13
- 9780385477031
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Fred Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the critically acclaimed author of the biographies Henry James , Dickens , and Thomas Carlyle (which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and the editor of The Essential Gore Vidal . Kaplan has held Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, received a Queens College Presidential Award, and been a Fellow of the National Humanities Center. He is currently at work on a biography of Mark Twain. Kaplan lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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- Firefly Bookstore LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 360958
- Title
- Gore Vidal: A Biography
- Author
- Fred Kaplan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0385477031
- ISBN 13
- 9780385477031
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- October 1999
- Pages
- 864
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography/Literature;
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