What was the nationality of Walt Whitman: Scottish, Swedish, French or American?

Learn More

people

Walt Whitman, born in 1819 on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, left formal schooling at age eleven to help support his family, working as an office boy, printer’s apprentice, and later as a journalist, teacher, and government clerk.

Dig deeper: codexery.com/literary-giants/e/part-1/walt-whitman/

More People Trivia Questions

This African-American botanist and agricultural chemist developed hundreds of uses for peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes. Who was he?

Queen Elizabeth's only daughter was born in 1950. What's her name?

Can you name the two sisters who have newspaper columns in hundreds of newspapers throughout the English speaking world?

After the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, architect Julia Morgan was called upon to rebuild the interior of which San Francisco hotel?

What are the first names of thumbs-up movie critics Siskel and Ebert?

Which game is played on a marked board divided into two halves, each side containing 12 alternately colored points?

Browse all people questions →