Erin Aubry Kaplan

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]

For the participant in American reality television series, see Erin Kaplan.
Erin Aubry Kaplan
Born (1962-01-06) January 6, 1962
Los Angeles, California
OccupationJournalist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California Los Angeles
SpouseAlan Kaplan
(b. 8/9/55, d. 8/29/2015)

Kaplan is also a regular columnist for make/shift, a quarterly, cutting-edge feminist magazine that launched in 2007[16] and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times[17].

Kaplan’s essays have been anthologized is several books, including (as Erin Aubry) "Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood" (Villard, Washington Square Press),[18] "Step Into A World" (Wiley & Sons)[19] and "Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood" (Doubleday).[20] The last book’s contributors include Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks and Alice Walker, and won an American Book Award in 2005.[21] She won the PEN USA 2001 award for journalism.[22]

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.[23][24] Her second, I Heart Obama, an extended essay about the cultural and personal meaning of the first black American president, was published in 2016.[25]

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.[26] Kaplan holds an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles, and teaches creative writing at Antioch University Los Angeles.[3]

References
  1. "Erin Aubry Kaplan: "Negro" Needs to be Retired". History News Network. 2010-02-08. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  2. "Erin Aubry Kaplan". KCET.org. 2008-09-30. Archived from the original on 2017-12-22. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  3. "Erin Aubry Kaplan - Antioch University Los Angeles | Antioch University Los Angeles". Antiochla.edu. 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  4. "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.
  5. "Can Inglewood survive the NFL and gentrification?". LA Times. 2015-01-12. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  6. "Los Angeles Times Hires Black Columnist | The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education". Mije.org. 2005-11-15. Archived from the original on 2017-01-12. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  7. "Erin Aubry Kaplan | Los Angeles News and Events". LA Weekly. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  8. "Erin Aubry Kaplan". Salon. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  9. Therese Neis. Extraordinary African-American Poets.
  10. "Holly's Heart". Essence.com. 2009-12-16. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  12. "Lives on the Line | winter 2009". Ms. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  13. "Ms. Magazine Online | Spring 2013". Ms. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  14. "Ms. Magazine Online | Winter 2013". Ms. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  15. "Ms. Magazine Online | Spring 2015". Ms. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  16. "make/shift". Makeshiftmag.com. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  17. "Opinion | My Love Affair With AM Radio". Retrieved 2018-11-02.
  18. Camille Peri; Kate Moses. Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood.
  19. Kevin Powell. "Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature". Aalbc.com. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  20. Cecelie Berry (ed.). Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood.
  21. "American Book Awards 2005" (PDF). Ankn.uaf.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  22. "Winners". PEN Center USA. Archived from the original on 2016-10-13. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  23. "Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Erin Aubry Kaplan". Northern University Press. 2011: 304. ISBN 978-1-55553-766-1. Archived from the original on 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2016-02-04. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  24. Hector Tobar (2011-11-12). "'Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line' review". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  25. Erin Aubry Kaplan (2016). I Heart Obama. University Press of New England. p. 240. ISBN 978-1-61168-536-7.
  26. "Love Across the Color Line: Remembering Alan Kaplan". KCET.org. 2015-09-09. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
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