Biography of

WALT
By: Darvin Morales

WHITMAN
Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in a house his father had
built with his own hands in West Hills, Long Island.
American poet. Son of a Dutch mother and a British father, he was
the second of the nine children of a family with limited economic
resources.
Family
He was the second of nine children of Walter (a carpenter), and
Louisa Van Velsor Whitman. Both the family on his father's
side and his mother's side had been in America for at least 150
years.

When he was four years old they moved to Brooklyn. He

studied until he was ten, then worked as an apprentice in a
printing press and as an office boy in a law firm, but he soon
moved to a newspaper where he began to advance in various
jobs.
 Poet
Between 1838 and 1839 he published the Long-Islander, in Huntington. He writes very
unoriginal poems and stories for different publications, as well as political speeches.

Editor
For two years he was editor of the famous Brooklyn Eagle, a position he lost by
supporting the Free-Soil party.He is considered the founder of modern poetry in the 19th
century.
 Poems

In 1842 he wrote a single novel, Franklin Evans,

the Drunkard.He also wrote an elegy to Abraham
Lincoln, O Captain, My Captain! Walt Whitman's
poem honoring Lincoln, president of the United
States, after his assassination in 1865. It was first
published the same year in an appendix attached to
the latest version of Leaves of Grass.
Did you know?
Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman corresponded throughout their lives.
 Death
Walt Whitman died on March 26, 1892 in Camden,
New Jersey.
I celebrate myself, and sing myself
--- Walt Whitman
Thank
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