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- ↑ Kaplan, Fred. "Results for 'au:Kaplan, Fred,'". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 2012-12-06.
- ↑ "All Past National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists". National Book Critics Circle. Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
- ↑ "biography or autobiography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
- ↑ A. D. Hutter. (1988-10-23). "Boz Abounding DICKENS: A BIOGRAPHY by Fred Kaplan". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-12-06.
Kaplan's critical insights into Dickens' work always concentrate on the connections between the life and related fictional projections of the self. The result is a critical reading of Dickens' works at once original and unified, always subordinated to the primary enterprise of biography itself.
