Lincoln W. Caplan, II (born 1950) is an American author, scholar, and journalist.
Caplan began his career in journalism as an intern for The New Republic after his first year of law school.
He began writing for The New Yorker in 1978, and worked on the newspaper for several decades as a member of the editorial board.
[3] From 1998 to 2006 he worked on the faculty of Yale Law School, where he found and headed the Legal Affairs magazine in 2002.
[6] Lincoln Caplan married Susan L. Carney, a judge for United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.