Evening Readings: James Kaplan

James Kaplan has been writing noted fiction, journalism, and biography for over four decades. In November 2010, Doubleday published Frank: The Voice, the first volume of Kaplan’s definitive biography of Frank Sinatra. The book was also a New York Times bestseller, and was chosen by Times chief book critic Michiko Kakutani as one of her Top Ten Books of 2010. In 2012, Kaplan was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for nonfiction. In October 2015, Doubleday published the bestselling second volume of his Frank Sinatra biography, Sinatra: The Chairman, which won the Biographers International Organization’s Award for Excellence in Biography. In Spring 2019 Yale University Press will publish Kaplan’s Irving Berlin: New York Genius, as part of its Jewish Lives series. James Kaplan lives in Westchester, New York with his wife and three sons.

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When: Tue., Oct. 23, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Where: Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
718-544-2996
Price: $20
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James Kaplan has been writing noted fiction, journalism, and biography for over four decades. In November 2010, Doubleday published Frank: The Voice, the first volume of Kaplan’s definitive biography of Frank Sinatra. The book was also a New York Times bestseller, and was chosen by Times chief book critic Michiko Kakutani as one of her Top Ten Books of 2010. In 2012, Kaplan was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for nonfiction. In October 2015, Doubleday published the bestselling second volume of his Frank Sinatra biography, Sinatra: The Chairman, which won the Biographers International Organization’s Award for Excellence in Biography. In Spring 2019 Yale University Press will publish Kaplan’s Irving Berlin: New York Genius, as part of its Jewish Lives series. James Kaplan lives in Westchester, New York with his wife and three sons.

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