New York: Doubleday, 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Thick octavo. 850pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Spine ends lightly bumped, else fine in a near fine dustwrapper with spine lightly sunned.

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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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Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 445156
Title: Gore Vidal: A Biography
Author: KAPLAN, Fred
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0385477031
ISBN 13: 9780385477031
Publisher: Doubleday
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1999
Keywords: Biography

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