Walt Whitman: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of American Authors)

Walt Whitman was the first incarnation of the great American poet. A humble, unsuspecting figure who managed to capture America's soul, Whitman came to prominence in the Civil War era of the 1860s and continued to grow as an artist as his nation grew along with him.

Whitman's writings captured the essence of his life and times. Not everyone approved of his means of expression in his own lifetime, but he always had a core group of admirers who believed in both the man and his work. Others wer...