Justin Kaplan

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. Quotes A tireless reader and notetaker, Bartlett had made himself over the years an information bank for the local academic and literary community, a resource for someone wanting to know who said what, when, and where. ... By the time of his death in 1905 at the age of eighty-five, Bartlett had made his name as generic for quotations as Noah Webster's for definitions. Preface to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 17th ed. (2002), p. vii External links