Erin Aubry Kaplan Explained

Erin Aubry Kaplan
Birth Date:January 6, 1962
Birth Place:Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education:University of California, Los Angeles (MFA)
Occupation:Journalist
Spouse:Alan Kaplan
(b. 8/9/1955, d. 8/29/2015)[1]

Erin Aubry Kaplan (born January 6, 1962) is a Los Angeles journalist and columnist[2] who has written about black political, economic and cultural issues since 1992.[3] [4] She is a contributing writer to the op-ed section of the Los Angeles Times,[5] [6] and from 2005 to 2007 was a weekly op-ed columnist – the first black weekly op-ed columnist in the paper's recent history.[7] She has been a staff writer and columnist for the LA Weekly[8] and a regular contributor for many publications, including Salon.com,[9] Essence,[10] [11] [12] and Ms.[13] [14] [15] [16] Kaplan is also a regular columnist for make/shift, a quarterly feminist magazine that launched in 2007[17] and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.[18]

Kaplan's essays have been anthologized in several books, including (as Erin Aubry) "Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood" (Villard, Washington Square Press),[19] "Step Into A World" (Wiley & Sons)[20] and "Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood" (Doubleday).[21] The last book's contributors include Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks and Alice Walker, and won an American Book Award in 2005.[22] She won the PEN USA 2001 award for journalism.[23]

Kaplan has published two books. Her first book was a collection of essays and reportage titled Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispaches From a Black Journalista, and was published in 2011.[24] [25] Her second, I Heart Obama, an extended essay about the cultural and personal meaning of the first black American president, was published in 2016.[26]

Kaplan was born and raised in Los Angeles, though her family is originally from New Orleans. She married Alan Kaplan, a Los Angeles high school history teacher. He died in 2015.[27] Kaplan holds an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles, and teaches creative writing at Antioch University Los Angeles.[4]

Notes and References

  1. News: Opinion | Mourning My White Husband in the Age of Trump. Erin Aubry. Kaplan. The New York Times . May 24, 2018. NYTimes.com.
  2. Web site: Erin Aubry Kaplan: "Negro" Needs to be Retired. History News Network. 2010-02-08. 2017-12-19.
  3. Web site: Erin Aubry Kaplan. KCET.org. 2008-09-30. 2017-12-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20171222055048/https://www.kcet.org/commentary/erin-aubry-kaplan. 2017-12-22. dead.
  4. Web site: Erin Aubry Kaplan - Antioch University Los Angeles | Antioch University Los Angeles. Antiochla.edu. 2012-12-21. 2017-12-19.
  5. News: The dehumanizing disregard I experienced at University of Redlands shows real equality has a ways to go. LA Times. 2015-11-29. 2017-12-19.
  6. News: Can Inglewood survive the NFL and gentrification?. LA Times. 2015-01-12. 2017-12-19.
  7. Web site: Los Angeles Times Hires Black Columnist | The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. Mije.org. 2005-11-15. 2017-12-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20170112200914/http://mije.org/richardprince/los-angeles-times-hires-black-columnist. 2017-01-12. dead.
  8. Web site: Erin Aubry Kaplan | Los Angeles News and Events. LA Weekly. 2017-12-19.
  9. Web site: Erin Aubry Kaplan. Salon. 2017-12-19.
  10. Book: Extraordinary African-American Poets. Therese Neis. July 2012. Enslow Publishing, LLC . 9781598451399.
  11. Web site: Holly's Heart. Essence.com. 2009-12-16. 2017-12-19.
  12. http://www.lapl.org/podcast-episode-participants/erin-aubry-kaplan
  13. Web site: Lives on the Line | winter 2009. Ms.. 2017-12-19.
  14. Web site: Ms. Magazine Online | Spring 2013. Ms.. 2017-12-19.
  15. Web site: Ms. Magazine Online | Winter 2013. Ms.. 2017-12-19.
  16. Web site: Ms. Magazine Online | Spring 2015. Ms.. 2017-12-19.
  17. Web site: make/shift. Makeshiftmag.com. 2017-12-19.
  18. News: Opinion My Love Affair With AM Radio. The New York Times . November 2018 . 2018-11-02. en . Kaplan . Erin Aubry .
  19. Book: Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood. Camille Peri. Kate Moses. 7 August 2013. Random House Publishing . 9780804151924.
  20. Web site: Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature. Kevin Powell. Aalbc.com. 2017-12-19.
  21. Book: Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood. 4 February 2009. Crown . 9780307490193. Cecelie Berry.
  22. Web site: American Book Awards 2005. Ankn.uaf.edu. 2017-12-19.
  23. Web site: Winners. PEN Center USA. 2017-12-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20161013053644/https://penusa.org/awards/winners. 2016-10-13. dead.
  24. Book: Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Erin Aubry Kaplan. Northern University Press. 2011. 304. 978-1-55553-766-1. 2016-02-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20160205121912/http://www.upne.com/1555537548.html. 2016-02-05. dead.
  25. News: Hector Tobar. 'Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line' review. Los Angeles Times. 2011-11-12. 2017-12-19.
  26. Book: I Heart Obama. Erin Aubry Kaplan. University Press of New England. 2016. 240. 978-1-61168-536-7.
  27. Web site: Love Across the Color Line: Remembering Alan Kaplan. KCET.org. 2015-09-09. 2017-12-19.

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