Kahlil Gibran facts for kids

Self-portrait, 1911.

Kahlil Gibran (6 January 1883 – 10 April 1931) was a writer and poet from Lebanon.

Gibran was born in Lebanon when it was part of the Ottoman Empire. His family moved to the United States of America when he was 12 years old and settled in the Boston neighbourhood of South End, at the time the second-largest Syrian and Lebanese ethnic enclave in the USA, and he went to school both in the US and in Lebanon.

He wrote books in both English and Arabic. His most famous book is The Prophet.

He died at the age of 48 in New York City from tuberculosis and cirrhosis of the liver, due to prolonged serious alcoholism.

Images for kids

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  F. Holland Day, c. 1898

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  Photograph of Gibran by F. Holland Day, c. 1898

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  The Collège maronite de la Sagesse in Beirut

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  Portrait of Mary Haskell by Gibran, 1910

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  Plaque at 14 Avenue du Maine in Paris, where Gibran lived from 1908 to 1910

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  May Ziadeh

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  Four members of the Pen League in 1920. Left to right: Nasib Arida, Gibran, Abd al-Masih Haddad, and Mikhail Naimy

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  First edition cover of The Prophet (1923)

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  A late photograph of Gibran

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  The Gibran Museum and Gibran's final resting place, in Bsharri

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  Portrait of William Blake by Thomas Phillips (detail)

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  Drawing of Francis Marrash by Gibran, c. 1910

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  Untitled (Rose Sleeves), 1911 (Telfair Museums)

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  Towards the Infinite (Kamila Gibran, mother of the artist), 1916 (Metropolitan Museum of Arts)