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-"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
-"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
-"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

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Franklin Evans; Or the Inebriate (1842)
Leaves of Grass (1855 with multiple editions)
Drum-taps (1865)

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Whitman worked in multiple printing shops and newspaper companies until the 1840s when he began freelance fiction. In 1858, he produced Manly Health and Training under the name of Mose Velsor. However, his most famous work was Leaves of Grass, published in August 1856. He began to add more and more to the work and its final version was released in 1891. He finished it in his death bed and passed away in March 26, 1892; he had died of bronchial pneumonia.

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Walter Whitman was born May 31st, 1819 in West Hills, Town of Huntington, Long Island. His parents, Walter and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, were considering becoming quakers. He was the second of nine children. He finished formal schooling at age eleven and began to work for his family with jobs such as an office boy and a printer's apprentice.