As a young man in the 1890s, Lebanese-born artist, poet, and polymath Kahlil Gibran emigrated to America, and in 1923 produced his inspiring and influential masterwork The Prophet, comprising 26 philosophical essays in poetic English. With black and white photos and reproductions of art throughout, this biography from his cousin and namesake Kahlil G. Gibran and Jean Gibran chronicles how Gibran encouraged a renaissance of Arab literature, painted hundreds of canvases (including numerous portraits of artists), and embraced elements of faiths beyond his Maronite Catholic upbringing, including Sufimysticism and the Baha'i faith.