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His Life and World by Jean Gibran, Kahlil Gibran

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Paperback, Published in Jun 2016 by Interlink Books

ISBN10: 1566560934 | ISBN13: 9781566560931

Page count: 464

Fifth updated edition of a bestselling classic. This definitive biography of Kahlil Gibranauthor of The Prophettraces the phenomenon of a first-generation immigrant succeeding in twentieth-century American arts and letters. Drawing upon never-before published letters and documents, the authors describe Gibran's boyhood in Lebanon, his family's impoverished years in turn-of-the-century Boston, and his eventual friendship with that city's intellectual elite. This authorized and up-to-date biography will make obsolete all previous accounts and will become the definitive study of this extraordinary and well-loved writer. Jean and Kahlil Gibran are unusually qualified to present this story. The younger Kahlil Gibran, a noted Boston sculptor, is the poet's cousin and namesake. Over a forty-year period, he was entrusted with a formidable body of work left by the poet. Jean Gibran is the author of Love Made Visible: Scenes from a Mostly Happy Marriage. She has worked closely with her husband in researching this biography.