Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Distingished Professor, Baruch College. English.

Selected Publications:

• Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, March 1995. Winner of the Bancroft Prize. Winner of the Ambassador Book Award. Finalist, National Book Critics Cricle Award. New York Times "Notable Books of the Year."

• Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Winner of the Christian Gauss Award. John Hope Franklin Prize, Honorable Mention. "Notable Books of the Year," New York Times Book Review. Selection of Readers' Subscription.

• Faith in Fiction: The Emergence of Religious Literature in America. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1981 (reprint 1984).

• George Lippard. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982.

• "Of Me I Sing: Whitman in His Time," New York Times Book Review, October 4, 1992.

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