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January 7, 2016 By Ira

Talking With James Kaplan – January 7, 2016

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This week, Ira spoke with James Kaplan.

James Kaplan is author of “Sinatra, The Chairman” (the sequel to the best-selling “Frank: The Voice”).

His essays and reviews, as well as more than a hundred major profiles of figures ranging from Madonna to Helen Gurley Brown, Calvin Klein to John Updike, Miles Davis to Meryl Streep, and Arthur Miller to Larry David, have appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and New York.

Kaplan’s first novel, “Pearl’s Progress,” was published by Knopf in 1989. His nonfiction portrait of John F. Kennedy International Airport, “The Airport” (1994) — called “a splendid book” by Gay Talese — remains a classic of aviation literature and New York storytelling.

His second novel, “Two Guys From Verona,” published in 1998 by Atlantic Monthly Press, was chosen by The New York Times as one of its Notable Books of the Year. In 2002 Kaplan co-authored the autobiography of John McEnroe, “You Cannot Be Serious,” which was an international bestseller (and number one on the New York Times list). His 2005 book “Dean and Me: A Love Story,” co-written with Jerry Lewis and published by Doubleday, was a New York Times bestseller as well.

In November 2010, Doubleday published “Frank: The Voice,” the first volume of Kaplan’s definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, which quickly went onto the New York Times bestseller list and was chosen by Times chief book critic Michiko Kakutani as one of her Top Ten Books of 2010. In 2011, Kaplan signed with Doubleday to write Volume Two, “Sinatra: The Chairman,” which was published in 2015.

In 2012, James Kaplan was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction. He lives in Westchester, New York, with his wife and three sons.

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