Mikhail Naimy

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Mikhail Naimy (1889–1988) was born in Mount Sannine, modern-day Lebanon. He was an author and poet of the New York Pen League. He wrote ninety-nine books, including dramas, essays, poetry, criticism, short stories and biographies. Among his best-known books is TheBook of Mirdad, a mystical text first published in Lebanon in 1948, which was translated into English and published in London in 1962. Naimy was a biographer and longtime associate of Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese writer, artist, poet, and philosopher, and Naimy penned the first biography about him (originally published in Arabic) in 1934. The biography was later translated into English and reprinted in 1950.