![]() ![]() ![]() Both were multilayered character studies set within the colorful tapestry of the times and brought Mr. Kaplan published only two more full-length biographies: “Lincoln Steffens: A Biography” (1974), about the muckraking journalist of the early 20th century, and “Walt Whitman: A Life” (1980), about the 19th-century poet. His biography so thoroughly captured the rambunctious and iconoclastic author of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” that it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. He had complications from Parkinson’s disease, his daughter Susanna Donahue said.Īfter working as an editor at New York publishing houses, Mr. ![]() Justin Kaplan, who brought a fresh literary elan to the art of biography, with his prize-winning books on writers Mark Twain, Lincoln Steffens and Walt Whitman, and who injected the voice of popular culture to an updated version of the venerable reference work Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, died March 2 in Cambridge, Mass. ![]()
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