Erin Aubry Kaplan
Erin Aubry Kaplan | |
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Born | January 6, 1962 |
Occupation | Journalist |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of New Mexico |
Spouse |
Alan Kaplan (b. 8/9/55, d. 8/29/2015) |
Erin Aubry Kaplan is a Los Angeles journalist and columnist born in 1962[1] who has written about African-American political, economic and cultural issues since 1992.[2][3] She is a contributing writer to the op-ed section of the Los Angeles Times,[4][5] and from 2005 to 2007 was a weekly op-ed columnist – the first black weekly op-ed columnist in the paper’s recent history.[6] She has been a staff writer and columnist for the LA Weekly[7] and a regular contributor for many publications, including Salon.com,[8] Essence,[9][10][11] and Ms.[12][13][14][15]
Kaplan is also a regular columnist for make/shift, a quarterly, cutting-edge feminist magazine that launched in 2007.[16]
Erin’s essays have been anthologized is several books, including (as Erin Aubry) "Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood" (Villard, Washington Square Press),[17] "Step Into A World" (Wiley & Sons)[18] and "Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood" (Doubleday).[19] The last book’s contributors include Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks and Alice Walker, and won an American Book Award in 2005.[20] She won the PEN USA 2001 award for journalism.[21]
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.[22][23] Her second, I Heart Obama, an extended essay about the cultural and personal meaning of the first black American president, was published in 2016.[24]
Kaplan was born and raised in Los Angeles, though her family is originally from New Orleans. She was married to Alan Kaplan, a Los Angeles high school history teacher, for 15 years. He died in 2015.[25] Kaplan holds an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles, and teaches creative writing at Antioch University Los Angeles.[3]
References
- ↑ "Erin Aubry Kaplan: "Negro" Needs to be Retired". History News Network. 2010-02-08. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ "Erin Aubry Kaplan". KCET.org. 2008-09-30. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- 1 2 "Erin Aubry Kaplan - Antioch University Los Angeles | Antioch University Los Angeles". Antiochla.edu. 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ "The dehumanizing disregard I experienced at University of Redlands shows real equality has a ways to go". LA Times. 2015-11-29. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ "Can Inglewood survive the NFL and gentrification?". LA Times. 2015-01-12. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ "Los Angeles Times Hires Black Columnist | The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education". Mije.org. 2005-11-15. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ "Erin Aubry Kaplan | Los Angeles News and Events". LA Weekly. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ "Erin Aubry Kaplan". Salon. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ Therese Neis. Extraordinary African-American Poets.
- ↑ "Holly's Heart". Essence.com. 2009-12-16. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑
- ↑ "Lives on the Line | winter 2009". Ms. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ "Ms. Magazine Online | Spring 2013". Ms. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ "Ms. Magazine Online | Winter 2013". Ms. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ "Ms. Magazine Online | Spring 2015". Ms. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ "make/shift". Makeshiftmag.com. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ Camille Peri; Kate Moses. Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood.
- ↑ Kevin Powell. "Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature". Aalbc.com. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ Cecelie Berry (ed.). Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood.
- ↑ "American Book Awards 2005" (PDF). Ankn.uaf.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ "Winners". PEN Center USA. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ "Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Erin Aubry Kaplan". Northern University Press. 2011: 304. ISBN 978-1-55553-766-1.
- ↑ Hector Tobar (2011-11-12). "'Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line' review". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
- ↑ Erin Aubry Kaplan (2016). I Heart Obama. University Press of New England. p. 240. ISBN 978-1-61168-536-7.
- ↑ "Love Across the Color Line: Remembering Alan Kaplan". KCET.org. 2015-09-09. Retrieved 2017-12-19.