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Line 1: '''James Kaplan''' (born 1951) is an [[United States\|American]] [[novelist]], [[journalist]], and [[biographer]].<ref>{{cite web\|last=Worth \|first=Marcia \|url=http://southorange.patch.com/articles/jersey-boys-james-kaplan-talks-sinatra-and-south-orange \|title=Jersey Boys: James Kaplan talks Sinatra and South Orange - South Orange, NJ Patch \|publisher=Southorange.patch.com \|date=2010-11-28 \|accessdate=2012-09-03}}</ref> 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.<ref name="wesleyan1">{{cite web\|url=http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsrel/media/voices/kaplan.html \|title=Video: Author James Kaplan ’73 on Wesleyan - Voices of Wesleyan - Wesleyan University \|publisher=Wesleyan.edu \|date=2011-01-31 \|accessdate=2012-09-03}}</ref> 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 Keepers Maxwell, Jr.\|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 (magazine)\|Vanity Fair]]'', ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', ''[[New York Magazine]]'', ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'', ''[[Esquire (magazine)\|Esquire]]'', and ''The New Yorker'', among others. He is the author of the following books, amongst other works:<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.paperbackswap.com/James-Kaplan/author/ \|title=James Kaplan: , and a List of Books by Author James Kaplan \|publisher=Paperbackswap.com \|date= \|accessdate=2012-09-03}}</ref>

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