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* With [[John McEnroe]], ''You Cannot Be Serious'' (2002) (held in over 1400 libraries according to [[WorldCat]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49285584&referer=brief_results |title=You cannot be serious (Book, 2002) |publisher=[WorldCat.org] |date=2009-11-09 |accessdate=2012-09-03}}</ref>
* With [[John McEnroe]], ''You Cannot Be Serious'' (2002) (held in over 1400 libraries according to [[WorldCat]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49285584&referer=brief_results |title=You cannot be serious (Book, 2002) |publisher=[WorldCat.org] |date=2009-11-09 |accessdate=2012-09-03}}</ref>


Kaplan's fiction has been compared by someone to that of [[John Updike]] and [[J.D. Salinger]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/4922 |title=A conversation with author James Kaplan |publisher=Charlie Rose |date=1998-05-27 |accessdate=2012-09-03}}</ref> His short fiction has appeared in ''[[The Best American Short Stories]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.narrativemagazine.com/node/255 |title=James Kaplan |publisher=Narrative Magazine |date= |accessdate=2012-09-03}}</ref> He has appeared as a guest on ''[[The Charlie Rose Show]]''. Kaplan is the 2011 Joan Jakobson Visiting Writer at Wesleyan University.<ref name="wesleyan1"/>
Kaplan's fiction has been compared {{Weasel}} by someone to that of [[John Updike]] and [[J.D. Salinger]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/4922 |title=A conversation with author James Kaplan |publisher=Charlie Rose |date=1998-05-27 |accessdate=2012-09-03}}</ref> His short fiction has appeared in ''[[The Best American Short Stories]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.narrativemagazine.com/node/255 |title=James Kaplan |publisher=Narrative Magazine |date= |accessdate=2012-09-03}}</ref> He has appeared as a guest on ''[[The Charlie Rose Show]]''. Kaplan is the 2011 Joan Jakobson Visiting Writer at Wesleyan University.<ref name="wesleyan1"/>


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

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James Kaplan (born 1951) is an American novelist, journalist, and biographer.[1] 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 70s and early 80s, he published a number of short stories in The New Yorker. In the mid 80s, 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]

  • Frank: The Voice (2010) (selected by Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times as one of her Top 10 Books of 2010)
  • Two Guys from Verona: A Novel of Suburbia (1999) (held in almost 700 libraries according to WorldCat), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year[4]
  • The Airport: Terminal Nights and Runway Days at John F. Kennedy International (1994)
  • Pearl's Progress (1989)

He is the co-author of the following biographies:

Kaplan's fiction has been compared

by someone to that of John Updike and J.D. Salinger.[7] His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories.[8] He has appeared as a guest on The Charlie Rose Show. Kaplan is the 2011 Joan Jakobson Visiting Writer at Wesleyan University.[2]

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

References

  1. ^ Worth, Marcia (2010-11-28). "Jersey Boys: James Kaplan talks Sinatra and South Orange - South Orange, NJ Patch". Southorange.patch.com. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
  2. ^ a b "Video: Author James Kaplan '73 on Wesleyan - Voices of Wesleyan - Wesleyan University". Wesleyan.edu. 2011-01-31. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
  3. ^ "James Kaplan: , and a List of Books by Author James Kaplan". Paperbackswap.com. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
  4. ^ "James Kaplan". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
  5. ^ "Dean & me : (a love story) (Book, 2005)". [WorldCat.org]. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
  6. ^ "You cannot be serious (Book, 2002)". [WorldCat.org]. 2009-11-09. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
  7. ^ "A conversation with author James Kaplan". Charlie Rose. 1998-05-27. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
  8. ^ "James Kaplan". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 2012-09-03.

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