James C. Kaplan (born September 10, 1951) is an American novelist, journalist, and biographer.
[1] He was born in New York City and grew up in rural Pennsylvania and suburban New Jersey.
[2] After graduation, Kaplan studied painting at the New York Studio School in Greenwich Village.
In the mid-1970s, he worked as a typist at The New Yorker Magazine, where he came under the tutelage of the writer and editor William Maxwell.
He is the author of the following books, amongst other works:[3] He is the co-author of the following biographies: Kaplan's fiction has been compared, by Francine Prose[8] and David Gates,[citation needed] to that of John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, and J.D.