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Ph.D., Columbia University.
Distinguished Professor, Queens College. English.

Selected Publications:

• The Singular Mark Twain, A Biography. Doubleday. N.Y. 2003.

• Gore Vidal, A Biography. Doubleday. N.Y. 1999.

• Henry James, The Imagination of Genius, A Biography, William Morrow, New York, 1992; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1992; Quill paperback, NY, 1994; Sceptre paperback, London, 1994.

• Dickens, A Biography. William Morrow, New York, 1988; Avon paperback, New York, 1990; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1988; Sceptre paperback, London, 1989; Fayard, Paris, 1991.

• Sacred Tears: Sentimentality in Victorian Literature. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1987.

• Thomas Carlyle, A Biography. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1983; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1984. Nominated for the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award and a jury nominee for the 1984 Pulitzer Prize in biography. University of California paperback, 1993.

• Dickens and Mesmerism: The Hidden Springs of Fiction. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1975.

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