Fred Kaplan

Fred Kaplan (born 1937) is distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Biography He was born in 1937 in The Bronx, New York, and attended Lafayette High School and Brooklyn College.

He was stabbed in New York in 1996, but made a recovery.

Books He is the author of several biographies. His book Thomas Carlyle was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

John Quincy Adams: American Visionary, HarperCollins, 2014,

Gore Vidal: A Biography Doubleday, 1999, ; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012, Taylor & Francis US, 1999, Dickens: A Biography, William Morrow & Company, 1988, Sacred tears: sentimentality in Victorian literature, Princeton University Press, 1987, Thomas Carlyle: A Biography, Cornell University Press, 1983, ; University of California Press, 1993, Dickens and mesmerism: the hidden springs of fiction, Princeton University Press, 1975, John Elliotson on Mesmerism, Da Capo Press, (New York), 1982.