Justin Kaplan

writer, 1967 Pulitzer Prize

Justin Kaplan received his bachelor of science degree from Harvard University in 1944. After pursuing a post-graduate degree for two years, he left graduate school to work for a publishing house, where he eventually became senior editor. Kaplan left publishing for writing in 1959 and began work on his first biography, *Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain*, a study of the famous author that was published in 1966. The book was a tremendous critical success, winning both the Pulitzer Prize for biography and a National Book Award in 1967. He followed this up with two more well-received biographies, *Lincoln Steffens, A Biography* (1974) and *Walt Whitman, A Life* (1980), which won an American Book Award, He also edited several anthologies and the 16th edition of Bartlett