Content deleted Content added
|
|
'''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 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.
|