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Justin Daniel Kaplan (September 5, 1925– March 2, 2014) was an American writer and editor. The general editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (16th and 17th eds.), he was best known as a biographer, particularly of Samuel Clemens, Lincoln Steffens, and Walt Whitman.

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Life

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Kaplan was born to an Orthodox Jewish family[1] in Manhattan, the son of Tobias D. Kaplan, a successful shirt manufacturer in New York City, and Anna (Rudman) Kaplan, a homemaker. Both of his parents died by the time he was nine. "I spent a lot of time as a boy playing in Central Park and walking around Manhattan by myself," he recalled in a 1981 Boston Globe interview.[2] He was raised by an older brother and the family's West Indian housekeeper, who taught him to cook, which later came in handy when his wife Anne Bernays turned out to be a self-described "domestic illiterate".

A top student, Kaplan entered Harvard University at age 16, receiving a Bachelor's in English in 1944. After pursuing a post-graduate degree in English for two years, he grew dissatisfied with graduate school and moved to New Mexico. "The openness and the beauty of the Southwest," he said in the 1981 interview, "made me aware of American writers in a way I had never considered before."

He then began to work as an editor for the publishing house Simon & Schuster, where after eight years he rose to senior editor, becoming known as "the house brain", handling brainier authors including British philosopher Bertrand Russell, "Zorba the Greek" author Nikos Kazantzakis, and sociologist C. Wright Mills. Fascinated by words and language, by his early 20s Kaplan had edited translations of Plato and Aristotle. In his memoir Back Then (2002) Kaplan wrote: "It was fun to work at Simon & Schuster. [It was] not surprising to see editors staying long after hours to talk books, trade industry gossip, and joke over office bottles of Scotch and gin. In the days before it was absorbed into a conglomerate the house was like a summer camp for intellectually hyperactive children", only without a curfew, reminiscing about dancing at a party with Marilyn Monroe, "gently kneading the little tire of baby fat around her waist."[3]

In 1953 while an editor at art book publisher Harry Abrams, he met Anne Bernays (b. 1930), daughter of public relations pioneer Edward L. Bernays and writer Doris E. Fleischman, and great-niece of Sigmund Freud. They married in 1954. Soon after he was invited by M. Lincoln "Max" Schuster, co-founder of Simon & Schuster to help acquire "better books", seek out younger authors, and "deal diplomatically" with established names.

In 1959 Kaplan saw Hal Holbrook's celebrated stage performance of Mark Twain, causing him to become fascinated with Twain, reading everything he could by and about him then writing a 10-page proposal complete with his own contract, which was accepted by Simon & Schuster complete with a $4,000 advance, causing him to leave publishing for writing, despite the anxiety caused by leaving a well-paying job for the uncertainty of a writer's life. Needing distance from the "adrenaline-intoxicated style" of New York, and needing access to Harvard's Widener Library, he and Anne moved to Massachusetts, where he remained for the rest of his life, living in Cambridge, Massachusetts in a 16-room house on Francis Avenue, where "Anne and Joe" became the center of a literary social circle at the heart of 02138, the Harvard Square ZIP code, with neighbors including French chef Julia Child and Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Said novelist James Carroll: "If there's a writer's community in Boston, they established it. There was a period of about 15 years when their house was the center of the writing life in Boston. Joe was the pillar, and Anne was the flame. Between the two of them they made a big difference in the life of the city."

In 1973 they built a home in Truro, Massachusetts in the Outer Cape.[4][5]

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain

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Kaplan's first book Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (1966)[6][7] was a critical success, winning both the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters[8] and the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[9] A stylish account of the Missouri-born humorist who attempted imperfectly to fit in with the Eastern elite, it was immediately praised as a landmark in Twain scholarship, making fans of E.L. Doctorow, Tom Wolfe et al. and becoming a standard biography. It “employed an organizing device, unusual for its day, to which Mr. Kaplan would return. Instead of arranging his subject’s life chronologically, he portrayed it out of sequence, opening the book with Twain at 31.”[10]

Kaplan brought out the psychic split in Clemens' personality implied by the name Mark Twain, a Missouri-raised Westerner who enjoyed all the Eastern comforts of the Gilded Age. "He was bound to be tormented by the distinction and the split, always invidious, between performing humorist and man of letters, and he had no way of reconciling the two... S.L. Clemens of Hartford dreaded to meet the obligations of Mark Twain, the traveling lecturer." "To the end he remained as much an enigma and prodigy to himself as he was to the thousands at the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York who filed past the casket, topped with a single wreath of laurel, where he lay in a white suit." (last line)

Thomas Lask wrote that "Not in years has there been a biography in which the complexities of human character have been exposed with such perceptiveness, with such a grasp of their contradictory nature, with such ability to keep each strand clear and yet make it contribute to the overall fabric."

In 1974 Kaplan published Mark Twain and His World,[11] a pictorial biography.

Other Biographies

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Kaplan followed Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain with two more well-received biographies, Lincoln Steffens: A Biography (1974)[12] and Walt Whitman: A Life (1980),[13] which won a National Book Award in category Autobiography/Biography.[14][a]

In 2006 Kaplan published When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age,[15] about the Astor family and the Gilded Age. He also edited several anthologies.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

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In 1988 after planned biographies of Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant and acting legend Charlie Chaplin fell through, Kaplan took a job as general editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations to update the 15th (1980) edition, “a job akin to running the admissions committee of the most selective college in the world" (New York Times),[16] which he was ideally suited for, editing the 16th and 17th editions (1992, 2002). “It’s every writer’s dream,” he said in a 1990 Boston Globe interview. “Every day, I look over my shoulder because I have the sense people think I’m goofing off.”[2] No goof-off, Kaplan began reading through all 25,000 quotations, weeding out some 3,500 obscure or unmemorable quotations from forgotten 19th century poets et al. and replacing them with more recent quotations from Elvis Presley, Norman Mailer, Noam Chomsky (“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously”) Erich Segal (“Love means never having to say you're sorry”), musicians including James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, and Michael Jackson, feminists including Susan Brownmiller (“Man’s discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe”), Erica Jong, and Germaine Greer (“Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?”), leftists including Philip Caputo (“You’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy”) and Toni Morrison (“At no point in my life have I ever felt as though I were American”), novelists including Milan Kundera, Chinua Achebe, and Anthony Burgess, entertainment figures including Garrison Keillor, Mel Brooks, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Sesame Street (“Me want a cookie”), and Woody Allen (Sex - “It’s the most fun I’ve ever had without laughing”), and films including E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (“ET phone home”), and Apocalypse Now (“I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory.”).

The 1992 16th edition deleted 245 authors and added 340 new ones, along with 1,600 new quotations. The back cover lists 10 quotations selected from the more than 20,000 found inside, by Gloria Steinem, Steve Biko, Grace Slick, and fans of Star Trek. One contemporary critique argued that it neglected conservative voices and many parts "read like the liberal Left's Hall of Fame”.[17]

“You can’t do it systematically. You do it associatively. One thing reminds you of another thing. You have to see whether it is not only quotable, but whether it has been quoted. I’m not doing an anthology of literary gems, but trying to find out what people have been quoting, what is stuck in their minds.”

Kaplan was criticized for discounting the eloquence of President Ronald Reagan, whom he purposely kept out of the 1992 edition, later admitting "I'm not going to disguise the fact that I despise Ronald Reagan", and "[He] could not be described as a memorable phrase maker" but was really only "an actor masquerading as a leader".[18] Bowing to the critics, he included in the 2002 edition Reagan’s memorable 1987 demand during a speech at the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin Wall: “Tear down this wall!”[19]

Memoirs

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Joe and Anne wrote a double memoir The Language of Names (1997), and Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York (2002), in which they referred to themselves as "children of privilege" who went to progressive schools and were "grounded in a classical approach to education — a lot of memorizing and Shakespeare, an exhaustive approach to history, literature, and the sciences."

Death

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Kaplan died at the age of 88 on March 2, 2014. He had been suffering for years from Parkinson's disease.[20][21] He left a wife and three daughters, Susanna Kaplan Donahue,[22] Hester Margaret Kaplan Stein,[23] and Polly Anne Kaplan,[24] and six grandchildren.

He belonged to the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Close friends included biographer Larry Tye.

In 2000, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[25]

In 2002 he was interviewed by National Public Radio's Fresh Air, explaining his thought process at Bartlett's.[26]

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Justin Kaplan was an American biographer, editor, and writer known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (1966), which offered a groundbreaking psychological portrait of Samuel Clemens and his literary persona. The book earned both the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1967 and the National Book Award, establishing Kaplan as a major figure in American literary biography for its perceptive analysis of Twain's complex character and dark imagination. He went on to write well-regarded biographies of Walt Whitman and Lincoln Steffens, further demonstrating his skill in illuminating the lives of major American figures with depth, humanity, and stylistic elegance. In addition to his biographical work, Kaplan served as editor of the seventeenth edition of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, a role that involved curating one of the most influential collections of quotations in English. He also co-authored a joint memoir, Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York, with his wife, the novelist Anne Bernays. Kaplan died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 2, 2014, at the age of 88 from complications of Parkinson’s disease.

Early life and education

Family background and childhood

Justin Kaplan was born on September 5, 1925, in Manhattan, New York City, to Russian immigrant parents in an Orthodox Jewish family. His father, Tobias D. Kaplan, was a successful shirt manufacturer, while his mother, Anna (Rudman) Kaplan, was a homemaker. His mother died when he was eight years old, and his father died when he was fourteen, leaving him orphaned as a teenager. He was raised by his older brother, an aunt, and the family's West Indian housekeeper.

Education at Harvard

Justin Kaplan entered Harvard University at the age of 16. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1945. After completing his undergraduate studies, he pursued two years of graduate work in English at Harvard but left the program without obtaining a higher degree.

Publishing career

Editorial roles at Simon & Schuster

Justin Kaplan joined Simon & Schuster as an editor in 1954 after leaving graduate studies, initially serving as an assistant to anthologist Louis Untermeyer on projects including a Whitman collection. He advanced to senior editor during his tenure at the publisher, which spanned until 1959. In his editorial role, Kaplan worked with intellectually rigorous authors and handled notable works, including those by philosopher Bertrand Russell, novelist Nikos Kazantzakis (known for Zorba the Greek), and sociologist C. Wright Mills. Kaplan later described the atmosphere at Simon & Schuster as enjoyable and stimulating, noting that editors often stayed late to discuss books and industry matters.

Brief work at Harry Abrams and transition to writing

In 1959, while still employed at Simon & Schuster, Kaplan attended a performance of Hal Holbrook's acclaimed one-man show "Mark Twain Tonight!", which ignited his deep fascination with Mark Twain. He immersed himself in Twain's works and related materials, producing a 10-page book proposal that Simon & Schuster promptly accepted with a $5,000 advance. This contract enabled Kaplan to leave his editorial career in publishing and commit full-time to writing biographies. Earlier in his career, Kaplan had a brief stint as an editor at Harry N. Abrams, the prominent art book publisher, where he met his future wife Anne Bernays in 1953. Seeking respite from New York's high-pressure environment and better access to research resources, he and his family relocated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, shortly after securing the book contract, where he drew extensively on Harvard's Widener Library for his work. This move in 1959 marked the definitive turning point in his professional life toward independent biographical writing.

Career as biographer

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (1966)

Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, published in 1966 by Simon & Schuster, marked Justin Kaplan's first major work as a biographer. The book presents a landmark psychological portrait of Samuel Clemens, exploring the duality between the private individual and his public persona as Mark Twain, which symbolized broader tensions in American culture between realism and romanticism. Kaplan's approach emphasized the inner conflicts and divisions within Clemens's character, offering striking psychological interpretations of his life and literary output. The biography received significant acclaim upon release. It was awarded the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. In the same year, it won the National Book Award for Arts and Letters. These honors recognized the work's depth and its contribution to biographical writing through its innovative focus on the subject's psychological complexity.

Walt Whitman: A Life (1980)

Walt Whitman: A Life, published in 1980 by Simon & Schuster, is Justin Kaplan's biography of the American poet Walt Whitman. The book offers a vivid portrait of Whitman's enigmatic personality, tracing his life from his early years in Brooklyn as a journalist and printer to his later days in Camden, New Jersey, where he cultivated a devoted following while continuing to revise and promote his seminal work Leaves of Grass. Kaplan delves into Whitman's influences—including Emerson, opera, phrenology, and the urban energy of Manhattan—and examines the poet's personal anxieties, including questions of identity, mortality, and "adhesiveness" in friendships with younger men. The narrative incorporates extensive quotations from Whitman's poetry and prose to connect his life experiences to the development of his bold, sensual, and democratic voice. The biography is noted for its leisurely pace, detailed research, and attention to period context, though some critics found Kaplan's approach more ruminative than dramatically incisive, resulting in a portrait that occasionally flattens Whitman's emotional complexities. Others praised it as a fine and sensitive depiction that brings Whitman to life as "hugely human." Following the success of his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Mark Twain, this work solidified Kaplan's reputation as a leading biographer. In 1981, Walt Whitman: A Life received the National Book Award for Autobiography/Biography (hardcover). The award recognized the book's contribution to understanding one of America's most influential poets through a richly sourced and accessible narrative.

Other biographical works

In addition to his acclaimed biographies of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan produced several other works in the biographical and historical genres. Lincoln Steffens: A Biography, published in 1974, examined the life of the influential muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens. That same year, Kaplan released Mark Twain and His World, an illustrated volume offering a pictorial exploration of Mark Twain's life, era, and cultural context. After a hiatus from the form, he returned with When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age in 2006, a social history detailing the Astor family's role in New York society and the development of the city's grand hotels during the Gilded Age. These books reflect Kaplan's ongoing engagement with American cultural and social history, though they attracted less widespread critical notice than his Pulitzer Prize-winning works.

Editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Appointment and editions overseen

Justin Kaplan was appointed general editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, overseeing the 16th edition published in 1992 and the 17th edition published in 2002. The 16th edition, released by Little, Brown and Company, marked his first major contribution in this role, reflecting his stewardship over the classic compendium's evolution. He continued as general editor for the 17th edition, also published by Little, Brown, which further updated the collection under his direction.

Notable changes and inclusions

In his editorial work on the sixteenth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1992), Justin Kaplan undertook a major revision of the classic reference work, removing approximately 3,500 obscure or unmemorable quotations to refresh and modernize the collection. This pruning of older material, often from forgotten 19th-century poets and similar sources, created space for a more diverse and contemporary selection. Kaplan incorporated 340 authors new to the volume, broadening the cultural scope to include voices from popular culture, politics, television, movies, pop and rock music, and other non-traditional areas. Among the notable additions were contemporary writers and thinkers such as Noam Chomsky, Norman Mailer, and Milan Kundera, as well as performers and cultural icons including Elvis Presley, Mel Brooks, and figures from Monty Python's Flying Circus. Kaplan also included material from Sesame Street, the film Apocalypse Now, and other pop culture sources like John Lennon and Dr. Seuss, reflecting a deliberate shift toward quotations that resonated in modern public discourse. These changes aimed to capture what people were actually quoting in everyday life, extending beyond strictly literary traditions to encompass a wider panorama of 20th-century expression.

Collaborations and later works

Books co-authored with Anne Bernays

Justin Kaplan collaborated with his wife, novelist Anne Bernays, on two nonfiction works that drew on their shared literary interests and personal experiences. The first, The Language of Names: What We Call Ourselves and Why It Matters (1997), examines the origins, cultural roles, and psychological impact of personal names across history and society. The book explores how names influence identity, social perceptions, and daily interactions, blending historical analysis with contemporary examples. Their second collaboration, Back Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York (2002), is a dual memoir recounting their separate yet intersecting paths in postwar New York City's literary world. Alternating perspectives detail their early careers, personal encounters, and eventual meeting and marriage amid the cultural and social shifts of the era. The book offers a reflection on youth, ambition, and transformation in a dynamic urban environment.

Additional literary projects

In 2006, Kaplan published When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age, a historical account of the Astor family's influence on New York City's luxury hotel industry and high society from the late 19th century into the 20th century. In 2007, Justin Kaplan contributed an essay to the anthology Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature, edited by Joseph Epstein and illustrated by Barry Moser. The book presents essays by twenty-five scholars and critics on seminal figures in English and American literature, with Kaplan writing the entry on Walt Whitman. Published by Paul Dry Books, this collection draws together diverse perspectives to explore the writers who most define the literary traditions. Kaplan's contribution reflects his longstanding expertise on Whitman, revisiting themes from his earlier full-length biography while offering a concise assessment of the poet's enduring significance. This project stands apart from his major biographical works and collaborations, representing a later engagement with literary criticism through a multi-author format.

Personal life

Marriage and family

Justin Kaplan married the novelist Anne Bernays in 1954, and their marriage lasted until his death in 2014. The couple had three daughters: Susanna Kaplan Donahue, Hester Margaret Kaplan Stein (a novelist), and Polly Anne Kaplan. At the time of his death, Kaplan was survived by six grandchildren.

Residences and literary community role

Justin Kaplan moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1959, initially to facilitate access to research libraries for his biographical projects. He and his wife Anne Bernays resided in a 16-room house on Francis Avenue for many years, where the home functioned as a gathering place for writers and intellectuals. The Francis Avenue house served as a center of literary life in Boston, hosting gatherings of writers for about 15 years and establishing Kaplan as a key figure in the local literary community. Among his neighbors and friends on or near Francis Avenue were Julia Child and Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith, reflecting the area's concentration of prominent intellectuals and cultural figures. In 1973, Kaplan and Bernays built a second home in Truro, Massachusetts, on the Outer Cape, which became their summer residence. This property complemented their Cambridge base, allowing Kaplan to maintain ties to both urban literary circles and a quieter coastal retreat.

Media appearances

Scholarly advisory credits

Justin Kaplan served as scholarly advisor on two television productions that adapted works by Mark Twain, drawing on his expertise as the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of the author. In 1980, he was credited as scholarly advisor for the episode "Life on the Mississippi" in the PBS series Great Performances, a dramatization of Twain's memoir recounting his experiences as a riverboat pilot. These advisory contributions were listed alongside other noted Twain scholars, reflecting the production's emphasis on literary and historical fidelity. In 1981, Kaplan again served as scholarly advisor for the television movie The Private History of a Campaign That Failed, an adaptation of Twain's humorous short story describing his brief and unsuccessful stint in a Confederate militia unit at the outset of the Civil War. These roles represent Kaplan's limited but targeted involvement in televised literary adaptations, where his scholarly knowledge helped inform the presentation of Twain's texts and their historical context.

On-screen appearances

Justin Kaplan made few on-screen appearances during his lifetime, largely limiting his media presence to occasional expert commentary or incidental roles that reflected his stature as a literary biographer rather than any pursuit of acting or television fame. He appeared as himself in one episode of the documentary television series Great Books in 1994. In addition, Kaplan had an uncredited role as a bar patron in the feature film Hollywood Sex Wars (2011). These isolated credits underscore the minimal extent of his direct involvement in on-screen projects.

Awards, death, and legacy

Major awards and honors

Justin Kaplan received some of the highest honors in American literary biography for his acclaimed works on Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. His debut book, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (1966), was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1967. The same biography also received the National Book Award in the Arts and Letters category in 1967. Kaplan's later biography Walt Whitman: A Life (1980) earned the National Book Award for Autobiography/Biography (hardcover) in 1981. Beyond these book-specific prizes, Kaplan was honored with the Golden Plate Award by the American Academy of Achievement in 2000. He was also elected to membership in several distinguished scholarly and literary organizations, including the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1981, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. These recognitions affirmed his standing as a leading biographer and editor in American letters.

Death and lasting impact

Justin Kaplan died on March 2, 2014, at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 88. He had suffered from Parkinson's disease for years, and the immediate cause of death was complications related to the illness. Kaplan was widely regarded as one of the most respected American literary biographers of the late 20th century, celebrated for his psychologically acute and elegantly crafted portraits that illuminated the complexities of his subjects. His debut work, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (1966), was hailed for exposing the contradictory nature of its subject with exceptional perceptiveness and narrative clarity. He brought similar insight to biographies of Walt Whitman and Lincoln Steffens, establishing a reputation for deep character analysis grounded in meticulous research. As general editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Kaplan modernized the influential anthology in its 1992 edition by incorporating contemporary popular culture, rock lyrics, four-letter words, and greater representation of women and minorities, including figures such as Jerry Seinfeld and Cookie Monster. His work on the volume reinforced its status as a key cultural reference and reflected his broader influence on American letters.

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