Walt Whitman

Plot Summary

This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892.

Top Cast

J.K. Simmons Narrator (voice)

Chris Cooper Walt Whitman (voice)

Walt Whitman Self (archive footage)