Gw mau tau Biografi dari Fred Kaplan (biografer)

Ia lahir pada 1937 di The Bronx, New York City, dan masuk Lafayette High School dan Brooklyn College

Ia adalah pengarang beberapa biografi

Buku buatannya Thomas Carlyle menjadi finalis untuk National Book Critics Circle Award, dan 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.