Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Justin Kaplan
![Justin Kaplan](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: September 5, 1925
Died: March 2, 2014 (aged 88)
Bio: Justin Daniel "Joe" Kaplan was an American writer and editor. The general editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, he was best known as a biographer, particularly of Samuel Clemens, Lincoln Steffens, and Walt Whitman.
Known for:
- Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography (1966)
- Walt Whitman: A Life (1980)
- Lincoln Steffens (1974)