Hester Kaplan
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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.) |
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| Spouse | Michael Stein |
| Parent(s) | Anne Bernays Kaplan Justin Kaplan |
| Relatives | Edward Bernays (grandfather) Doris E. Fleischman (grandmother) |
Hester Margaret Kaplan Stein is an American short story writer, and novelist.
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]
