Erin Aubry Kaplan is a Los Angeles journalist and columnist born in 1962[1] who has written about black political, economic and cultural issues since 1992.[2][3] She is a contributing writer to the op-ed section of the Los Angeles Times,[4][5] and from 2005 to 2007 was a weekly op-ed columnist – the first black weekly op-ed columnist in the paper’s recent history.[6] She has been a staff writer and columnist for the LA Weekly[7] and a regular contributor for many publications, including Salon.com,[8] Essence,[9][10][11] and Ms.[12][13][14][15]
Erin Aubry Kaplan | |
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| Born | (1962-01-06) January 6, 1962 (age 60) Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California Los Angeles |
| Spouse | Alan Kaplan (b. 8/9/55, d. 8/29/2015) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/opinion/sunday/interracial-marriage-trump-mourning.amp.html |
Kaplan is also a regular columnist for make/shift, a quarterly feminist magazine that launched in 2007[16] and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.[17]
Kaplan’s essays have been anthologized in several books, including (as Erin Aubry) "Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood" (Villard, Washington Square Press),[18] "Step Into A World" (Wiley & Sons)[19] and "Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood" (Doubleday).[20] The last book’s contributors include Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks and Alice Walker, and won an American Book Award in 2005.[21] She won the PEN USA 2001 award for journalism.[22]
Kaplan has published two books. Her first book was a collection of essays and reportage titled Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispaches From a Black Journalista, and was published in 2011.[23][24] Her second, I Heart Obama, an extended essay about the cultural and personal meaning of the first black American president, was published in 2016.[25]
Kaplan was born and raised in Los Angeles, though her family is originally from New Orleans. She was married to Alan Kaplan, a Los Angeles high school history teacher, for 15 years. He died in 2015.[26] Kaplan holds an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles, and teaches creative writing at Antioch University Los Angeles.[3]