The Prophet: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Life

About Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran was born into an impoverished Christian family in Bsharri Lebanon in 1883. His masterpiece The Prophet was first published in 1923 and is among the most-read books of the last century inspiring the lyric-writing of John Lennon among others. But Gibran enjoyed only scant recognition in his own time - his health broken by chronic illness and self-neglect he died in 1931 aged just forty-eight in his adopted home of New York. He is buried at Bsharri where his tomb now a museum is visited by more than 50000 pilgrims annually.