Hester Kaplan Explained

Hester Kaplan
Birth Name:	Hester Margaret Kaplan
Alma Mater:	Barnard College (B.A.)
Parents:	Anne Bernays Kaplan Justin Kaplan
Spouse:	Michael Stein
Relatives:	Edward Bernays (grandfather) Doris E. Fleischman (grandmother)

Hester Margaret Kaplan Stein is an American short story writer, and novelist.

Life

Kaplan was born to a Jewish family, the daughter of novelist Anne (née Bernays) and author Justin Kaplan.^[1] Her maternal grandparents were Doris Fleischman and Edward Bernays, "the father of public relations" and nephew of Sigmund Freud. She grew up in Cambridge and graduated from Barnard College.

She has taught writing at Rhode Island School of Design^[2] and teaches at Lesley University.^[3]

Her work appeared in Ploughshares, Story, Glimmer Train, and Agni,^[4] "The Private Life of Skin", appeared in Southwest Review.

In 1987, she married Dr. Michael Stein.

Awards

• 1999 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship
• 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship^[5]

Works

• Book: Unravished . 2014 . . 978-1-935439-90-5 . no. ^[6]
• Book: The Tell . 2013 . . 978-0-06-218403-0 . no. ^[7]
• Book: Kinship Theory: A Novel. Back Bay. 2002. 978-0-316-50426-3 . ^{[8] [9] [10] [11]}
• Book: The Edge of Marriage. W. W. Norton & Company. 2001. 978-0-393-32144-9 . ^{[12] [13] [14]}

Anthologies

• Book: Live Life King-Sized . The Best American Short Stories 1999. 1999. Houghton Mifflin. 189-215 . registration. Amy Tan. 978-0-395-92684-0 . ^[15]
• Book: Wouldn't You Know It Wasn't Love . The Best American Short Stories 1998. 1998. Houghton Mifflin. 269-282 . registration. Garrison Keillor . 978-0-395-87514-8 .

Work appearing in Ploughshares

• "Goodwell", Ploughshares, Spring 1989
• "Companion Animal", Ploughshares, Spring 2003

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. News: Ms. Kaplan Weds Dr. Michael Stein . The New York Times. September 14, 1987 .
2. Web site: RISD : Rhode Island School of Design : FACULTY LIST . November 6, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100823122207/http://www.risd.edu/faculty.cfm?Letter=K . August 23, 2010 . dead .
3. Web site: Creative Writing MFA | Lesley University.
4. Web site: Agni Online. September 15, 2022 .
5. News: List . Madeleine . Providence author receives national arts fellowship . October 21, 2024 . . February 11, 2020.
6. Web site: Unravished . . October 21, 2024.
7. Web site: The Tell by Hester Kaplan . . October 21, 2024.
8. Web site: Kinship Theory by Hester Kaplan . . October 21, 2024.
9. Web site: Kinship Theory: A solid, well-written first novel that successfully avoids the saccharine and melodramatic. . . October 21, 2024.
10. News: Books Kinship Theory . April 29, 2001 . Dana . Kennedy . .
11. Kramer . Peter D. . Kinship Theory . American Journal of Psychiatry . 158 . 12 . December 1, 2001 . 10.1176/appi.ajp.158.12.2097 . 2097–2098.
12. Web site: The Edge of Marriage . . October 21, 2024 . en.
13. Web site: The Edge of Marriage: Stories by Hester Kaplan . . October 21, 2024.
14. News: Domestic Unrest: This debut collection of stories looks at husbands and wives in transition . Sarah . Ferguson . October 24, 1999 . . .
15. Web site: The Best American Short Stories . . October 21, 2024.