Erin Aubry Kaplan

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Erin Aubry Kaplan
Born (1962-01-06) January 6, 1962 (age 61)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationJournalist
Nationality American
Education University of California, Los Angeles (MFA)
SpouseAlan Kaplan
(b. 8/9/1955, d. 8/29/2015) [1]

Erin Aubry Kaplan (born January 6, 1962) is a Los Angeles journalist and columnist born in 1962 [2] who has written about black political, economic and cultural issues since 1992. [3] [4] She is a contributing writer to the op-ed section of the Los Angeles Times , [5] [6] and from 2005 to 2007 was a weekly op-ed columnist – the first black weekly op-ed columnist in the paper's recent history. [7] She has been a staff writer and columnist for the LA Weekly [8] and a regular contributor for many publications, including Salon.com, [9] Essence , [10] [11] [12] and Ms. [13] [14] [15] [16]

Kaplan is also a regular columnist for make/shift, a quarterly feminist magazine that launched in 2007 [17] and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times . [18]

Kaplan's essays have been anthologized in several books, including (as Erin Aubry) "Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood" (Villard, Washington Square Press), [19] "Step Into A World" (Wiley & Sons) [20] and "Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood" (Doubleday). [21] The last book's contributors include Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks and Alice Walker, and won an American Book Award in 2005. [22] She won the PEN USA 2001 award for journalism. [23]

Kaplan has published two books. Her first book was a collection of essays and reportage titled Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispaches From a Black Journalista, and was published in 2011. [24] [25] Her second, I Heart Obama, an extended essay about the cultural and personal meaning of the first black American president, was published in 2016. [26]

Kaplan was born and raised in Los Angeles, though her family is originally from New Orleans. She was married to Alan Kaplan, a Los Angeles high school history teacher, for 15 years. He died in 2015. [27] Kaplan holds an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles, and teaches creative writing at Antioch University Los Angeles. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ 🖉Kaplan, Erin Aubry (May 24, 2018). "Opinion | Mourning My White Husband in the Age of Trump" – via NYTimes.com.
  2. ↑ "Erin Aubry Kaplan: "Negro" Needs to be Retired". History News Network. 2010-02-08. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  3. ↑ "Erin Aubry Kaplan". KCET.org. 2008-09-30. Archived from the original on 2017-12-22. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  4. 1 2 "Erin Aubry Kaplan - Antioch University Los Angeles | Antioch University Los Angeles". Antiochla.edu. 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  5. ↑ "The dehumanizing disregard I experienced at University of Redlands shows real equality has a ways to go". LA Times. 2015-11-29. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  6. ↑ "Can Inglewood survive the NFL and gentrification?". LA Times. 2015-01-12. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  7. ↑ "Los Angeles Times Hires Black Columnist | The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education". Mije.org. 2005-11-15. Archived from the original on 2017-01-12. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  8. ↑ "Erin Aubry Kaplan | Los Angeles News and Events". LA Weekly . Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  9. ↑ "Erin Aubry Kaplan". Salon . Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  10. ↑ Therese Neis (July 2012). Extraordinary African-American Poets. ISBN   9781598451399.
  11. ↑ "Holly's Heart". Essence.com. 2009-12-16. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
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  13. ↑ "Lives on the Line | winter 2009". Ms. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  14. ↑ "Ms. Magazine Online | Spring 2013". Ms. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  15. ↑ "Ms. Magazine Online | Winter 2013". Ms. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  16. ↑ "Ms. Magazine Online | Spring 2015". Ms. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  17. ↑ "make/shift". Makeshiftmag.com. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  18. ↑ "Opinion | My Love Affair With AM Radio" . Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  19. ↑ Camille Peri; Kate Moses (7 August 2013). Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood. ISBN   9780804151924.
  20. ↑ Kevin Powell. "Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature". Aalbc.com. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  21. ↑ Cecelie Berry, ed. (4 February 2009). Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood. ISBN   9780307490193.
  22. ↑ "American Book Awards 2005" (PDF). Ankn.uaf.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  23. ↑ "Winners". PEN Center USA. Archived from the original on 2016-10-13. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  24. ↑ Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Erin Aubry Kaplan. Northern University Press. 2011. p. 304. ISBN   978-1-55553-766-1. Archived from the original on 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  25. ↑ Hector Tobar (2011-11-12). "'Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line' review". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  26. ↑ Erin Aubry Kaplan (2016). I Heart Obama. University Press of New England. p. 240. ISBN   978-1-61168-536-7.
  27. ↑ "Love Across the Color Line: Remembering Alan Kaplan". KCET.org. 2015-09-09. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
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