JUSTIN KAPLAN - TYPESCRIPT SIGNED - HFSID 183996
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JUSTIN KAPLAN
First two paragraphs from Justin Kaplan's 1966 biography of Mark Twain, Mr. Clemens
and Mark, signed by him. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twainwon the Pulitzer Prize for
Biography and the National Book Award for Arts and Letters.
Typescript signed "Justin Kaplan.". 1 page, 8½x11. Headed: "Mr. Clemens and Mark
Twain".American biographer and anthologist Justin Kaplan (1925-2014) worked in
publishing from 1946 to 1959, where he worked his way up to senior editor. But he left his
job to write his first book, a 1966 biography of Mark Twain entitled Mr. Clemens and
Mark Twain, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and National Book Award for
Arts and Letters. Kaplan also wrote the well-regarded biographies Walt Whitman: A Life(1980), which won an American Book Award, and Lincoln Steffens: A Biography(1974)
and was general editor of the 1992 edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Lightly toned
and creased. Folded twice and unfolded. Otherwise, fine condition.
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