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Walt Whitman
American poet Walt Whitman, photograph by Mathew Brady.
Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, Long Island, New York, in 1819. He spent his early childhood there on a small section of his family's ancestral estate. In 1823, when Whitman was four years old, his father moved the family to Brooklyn, where he attended public school and eventually began his working life as a printer.12