Johanna Kaplan

Johanna Kaplan is the author of Other People's Lives , a collection of stories, and O My America! , a novel. Her books were finalists for the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, and she has twice received the National Jewish Book Award for fiction, as well as the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and the Kenneth B. Smilen/Present Tense Literary Award. Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Commentary , Harper's Magazine , Moment , the New...See more

Johanna Kaplan is the author of Other People's Lives , a collection of stories, and O My America! , a novel. Her books were finalists for the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, and she has twice received the National Jewish Book Award for fiction, as well as the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and the Kenneth B. Smilen/Present Tense Literary Award. Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Commentary , Harper's Magazine , Moment , the New York Times Book Review , and City Journal , and her stories have been widely anthologized. Her essay "Tales of My Great-Grandfathers" appears in the Schocken anthology Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer . A native New Yorker, she lives in Manhattan and for many years worked as a teacher of emotionally disturbed children at Mount Sinai Hospital. She is currently at work on a novel with the tentative title Forbidden . See less