Gibran Khalil Gibran (born January 6 1883 in Bsharri, Lebanon, died April 10 1931 in New York City) was a Lebanese poet and artist. He emigrated to Boston, USA in 1895 with his mother, sisters and half-brother. The spelling "Kahlil Gibran" is the result of an error when he first entered school in Boston. He studied art in Boston and French and Arabic in Lebanon.
He was a Maronite.
In his early teens, Gibran was a protege of Boston photographer and publisher F. Holland Day.
Bibliography
- Ara'is al-Muruj (Nymphs of the Valley, also translated as Spirit Brides, 1906)
- al-Arwah al-Mutamclrrida (Spirits Rebellious, 1908)
- al-Ajniha al-Mutakassira (Broken Wings, 1912)
- Dam'a wa Ibtisama (A Tear and A Smile, 1914)
- The Madman (1918)
- al-Mawakib (The Processions, 1919)
- al-'AuasiJ (The Tempests, 1920)
- The Forerunner (1920)
- al-Bada'i' waal-Tara'if (The New and the Marvellous ,1923)
- The Prophet, 1923 - his best known work
- Sand and Foam (1926)
- Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
- The Earth Gods (1929)
- The Wanderer (1932)
- The Garden of The Prophet (1933)
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