Alice Yaeger Kaplan (born June 22, 1954) is an American literary critic, translator, historian, and educator.
[3] She is the author of Reproductions of Banality: Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life (1986); French Lessons: A Memoir (1993); The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach (2000); and The Interpreter (2005), about racial injustice in the American army witnessed by Louis Guilloux.
In March 2012, Kaplan's book about the Paris years of Jacqueline Bouvier, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis, Dreaming in French, was published by the University of Chicago Press.
Kaplan is also the translator into English of Louis Guilloux's novel OK, Joe, Evelyne Bloch-Dano [fr]'s Madame Proust: A Biography, and three books by Roger Grenier: Piano Music for Four Hands, Another November, and The Difficulty of Being a Dog.
[5] The Interpreter was the recipient of the 2005 Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government,[6] and French Lessons was nominated for the 1993 National Books Critics Circle Award (for autobiography and biography).