Gore Vidal - A Biography
by Kaplan, Fred
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385477031
- ISBN 13
- 9780385477031
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Goldring Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010258
- Title
- Gore Vidal - A Biography
- Author
- Kaplan, Fred
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385477031
- ISBN 13
- 9780385477031
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- AMERICAN WRITERS BIOGRAPHY, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, TRUMAN CAPOTE, NORMAN MAILER, WILLIAM BUCKLEY, ANAIS NIN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography - American - General;
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