TWA Poet: Khalil Gibran

1883 - 1931

It’s the birthday of the author of the best-selling book in Alfred A. Knopf’s publishing history: Khalil Gibran, born in the mountain village in Bsharri, Lebanon (1883). When Gibran was a boy, his mother decided to leave her alcoholic husband and take her four children to America. They settled in Boston, where they had relatives, and it was there that a…