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Name
  
Hester Kaplan

Role
  
Short story writer

Education
  
Barnard College


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Awards
  
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Books
  
The Tell, Unravished, The Edge of Marriage, Kinship Theory

Hester kaplan at the january 2013 nyc sunday salon


Hester Kaplan is an American short story writer, and novelist.

Contents

Life

She grew up in Cambridge. She graduated from Barnard College.

She has taught writing at Rhode Island School of Design and teaches at Lesley University.

Her work appeared in Ploughshares, Story, Glimmer Train, and Agni, "The Private Life of Skin", appeared in Southwest Review.

She is the mother of two boys, Alex and Toby.

Awards

  • 1999 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
  • Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship
  • 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

    • Works

  • Kinship Theory: A Novel. Back Bay. 2002. ISBN 978-0-316-50426-3. 
  • The Edge of Marriage. W. W. Norton & Company. 2001. ISBN 978-0-393-32144-9. 

    • Anthologies

  • Amy Tan (ed.). The Best American Short Stories 1999. ISBN 978-0-395-92684-0. 
  • The Best American Short Stories 1998.

    • Ploughshares

    Work appearing in Ploughshares

  • "Goodwell", Ploughshares, Spring 1989
  • "Companion Animal", Ploughshares, Spring 2003

    • References

    Hester Kaplan Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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