James Kaplan

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James C. Kaplan
Born (1951-09-10) September 10, 1951 (age 73)
Nationality American
OccupationAuthor

James C. Kaplan (born September 10, 1951) is an American novelist, journalist, and biographer. [1]

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Biography

He was born in New York City and grew up in rural Pennsylvania and suburban New Jersey. He matriculated at New York University and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1973 with a degree in studio art. [2] After graduation, Kaplan studied painting at the New York Studio School in Greenwich Village. He is the brother of editor Peter Kaplan.

In the mid-1970s, he worked as a typist at The New Yorker Magazine, where he came under the tutelage of the writer and editor William Maxwell. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he published a number of short stories in The New Yorker. In the mid 1980s, Kaplan worked for several years as a screenwriter for Warner Brothers. Since the late 1980s, he has been a writer of magazine profiles for Vanity Fair , Entertainment Weekly , New York Magazine , The New York Times Magazine , Esquire , and The New Yorker, among others.

He is the author of the following books, amongst other works: [3]

He is the co-author of the following biographies:

Kaplan's fiction has been compared, by Francine Prose [8] and David Gates,[ citation needed ] to that of John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, and J.D. Salinger. [9] His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories . [5] He has appeared as a guest on The Charlie Rose Show . Kaplan is the 2011 Joan Jakobson Visiting Writer at Wesleyan University. [2]

Personal life

Kaplan lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York with his wife and son.

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  7. You cannot be serious (Book, 2002). [WorldCat.org]. 2009-11-09. ISBN   9780399148583. OCLC   49285584.
  8. "A Middle-Age Night's Dream: Star-Crossed Guys in the 'Burbs". The New York Observer. 1998-02-23. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
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