Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran (6 January 1883 – 10 April 1931) was a writer and poet from Lebanon. He wrote books in both English and Arabic. His most famous book is The Prophet.
Biography
Gibran was born in Lebanon when it was part of the Ottoman Empire. His family moved to the United States of America when he was 12 years old and settled in the Boston neighbourhood of South End, at the time the second-largest Syrian and Lebanese ethnic enclave in the USA, and he went to school both in the US and in Lebanon.[1]
He died at the age of 48 in New York City from tuberculosis and cirrhosis of the liver, due to prolonged serious alcoholism.
Kahlil Gibran Media
F. Holland Day, c. 1898
Photograph of Gibran by F. Holland Day, c. 1898
Portrait of Mary Haskell by Gibran, 1910
Plaque at 14 Avenue du Maine, Paris, where Gibran lived from 1908 to 1910
May Ziade in mid life approximately.
Four members of the Pen League in 1920. Left to right: Nasib Arida, Gibran, Abd al-Masih Haddad, and Mikhail Naimy
First edition cover of The Prophet (1923)
A late photograph of Gibran
The Gibran Museum and Gibran's final resting place, in Bsharri
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References
- ↑ Walbridge, John. "Gibran, his Aesthetic, and his Moral Universe". Juan Cole's Kahlil Gibran Page – Writings, Paintings, Hotlinks, New Translations. Professor Juan R.I. Cole. Retrieved 2 January 2009.
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