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jan 1, 1842 - Walt Whitman First Published Novel

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Whitman publishes his first novel, Franklin Evans; or The Inebriate. The pro-temperance novel is commercially popular, even though Whitman himself later comes to describe it as "rot."

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jan 1, 1842
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~ 184 years ago