Life and adventures of Jack Engle: an auto-biography
Subtitle: a story of New York at the present time in which the reader will find some familiar characters
By: Walt Whitman ; with an introduction by Zachary Turpin
Contributors: Turpin, Zachary, writer of introduction
Series: The Iowa Whitman series; Iowa Whitman series
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781609385125; 9781609385101
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction; Specimens
Description: In 1852, young Walt Whitman--a down-on-his-luck housebuilder in Brooklyn--was hard at work writing two books. One would become one of the most famous volumes of poetry in American history, a free-verse revelation beloved the world over, Leaves of Grass. The other, a novel, would be published under a pseudonym and serialized in a newspaper. A short, rollicking story of orphanhood, avarice, and adventure in New York City, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle appeared to little fanfare. Then it disappeared. No one laid eyes on it until 2016, when literary scholar Zachary Turpin, University of Houston, followed a paper trail deep into the Library of Congress. -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: "The lost novel of Walt Whitman" -- Front cover.