About the Author

Jerome Loving is the author of Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance (1993), Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story (1986), Emerson, Whitman, and the American Muse (1982), and Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor (1978). He is the editor of Frank Norris's McTeague (1995), Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1990), and Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman (1975).

Reviews

"Loving's award-winning biography utilizes many advances in Whitman scholarship since the standard biography, Gay Wilson Allen's 'The Solitary Singer', was published 40 years ago."--"Toronto Globe & Mail