Hester Kaplan
American novelist
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Hester Margaret Kaplan Stein is an American short story writer, and novelist.
Born
Hester Margaret Kaplan
AlmamaterBarnard College (B.A.)
Occupations
- Novelist
- writer
SpouseMichael Stein
Hester Kaplan | |
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| Born | Hester Margaret Kaplan |
| Alma mater | Barnard College (B.A.) |
| Occupations |
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| Spouse | Michael Stein |
| Parent(s) | Anne Bernays Kaplan Justin Kaplan |
| Relatives | Edward Bernays (grandfather) Doris E. Fleischman (grandmother) |
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.[1]
Awards
- 1999 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship
- 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship[5]
- 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship[6]
Works
- Twice Born: Finding My Father In the Margins of Biography. Catapult. 2025. ISBN 978-1646223091.[7]
- Unravished. Ig Publishing. 2014. ISBN 978-1-935439-90-5.[8]
- The Tell. Harper Perennial. 2013. ISBN 978-0-06-218403-0.[9]
- Kinship Theory: A Novel. Back Bay. 2002. ISBN 978-0-316-50426-3.[10][11][12][13]
- The Edge of Marriage. W. W. Norton & Company. 2001. ISBN 978-0-393-32144-9.[14][15][16]
Anthologies
- Amy Tan, ed. (1999). "Live Life King-Sized". The Best American Short Stories 1999. Houghton Mifflin. pp. 189–215. ISBN 978-0-395-92684-0.[17]
- Garrison Keillor, ed. (1998). "Wouldn't You Know It Wasn't Love". The Best American Short Stories 1998. Houghton Mifflin. pp. 269–282. ISBN 978-0-395-87514-8.
Work appearing in Ploughshares
- "Goodwell", Ploughshares, Spring 1989
- "Companion Animal", Ploughshares, Spring 2003
