TITLE: Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington
SPEAKER: Daniel Mark Epstein
EVENT DATE: 09/30/2004
RUNNING TIME: 47 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Daniel Epstein is a poet, dramatist and biographer with 12 books in print. Epstein has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and Prix de Rome from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Speaker Biography: Daniel Epstein is a poet, dramatist and biographer with 12 books in print. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Prix de Rome from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1998 Epstein published an acclaimed translation of Euripides' play "The Bacchae." His biography of Nat King Cole was a New York Times "notable book" of 1999, and his biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay was a New York Public Library "Books to Remember Selection" in 2001.
