Favorite Share 
Zoom Discuss
Walt Whitman 1864 Whitman family photo
Added
by

Walt Whitman 1864

Walt Whitman in 1864, at the age of 45.

Born on Long Island, Walt Whitman was a famous essayist, journalist, and poet even during his own lifetime. Today, he is best known for Leaves of Grass. And for the fact that you have to read his writings in school! Remember "O Captain! My Captain!"? He wrote this poem about the death of Abraham Lincoln.

He died in 1892 at the age of 73 and was a much more interesting (and multifaceted) man than we learned in school

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Alexander Gardner photographer ... show more

Write a comment
Photo taken at Washington DC, District of Columbia USA on

Walter "Walt" Whitman

Mini-biography
Born: May 31, 1819
Died: unknown
Also in this photo: Walter "Walt" Whitman at 43 years old