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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.<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 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001170939/http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsrel/media/voices/kaplan.html |archivedate=2012-10-01 |df= }}</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 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 (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'', ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', ''[[New York Magazine]]'', ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'', ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', and ''The New Yorker'', among others.
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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>
Kaplan's fiction has been compared, by [[Francine Prose]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://observer.com/1998/02/a-middleage-nights-dream-starcrossed-guys-in-the-burbs/ |title= A Middle-Age Night’s Dream: Star-Crossed Guys in the ‘Burbs |publisher=The New York Observer |date=1998-02-23 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref> and [[David Gates]],{{citation needed|date=February 2014}} to that of [[John Updike]], [[Vladimir Nabokov]], 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 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927212936/http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/4922 |archivedate=2012-09-27 |df= }}</ref> His short fiction has appeared in ''[[The Best American Short Stories]]''.<ref name="James Kaplan"/> 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"/>
==Personal life==
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