Conversation with Johanna Kaplan

Abstract

Johanna Kaplan is the author of the recently reissued novel O My America! the short story collection Other People’s Lives, and many short stories published in Commentary magazine and elsewhere. Her stories have been widely anthologized. She has won the Jewish Book Award twice and twice been a finalist for the National Book Award. She won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, Lewis Wallant Award, Kenneth Smilen/Present Tense Literary Award, and has received both an NEA and a CAPS grant. She has taught at Yeshiva University and read at the 92nd Street YMHA. Critics mention her respectfully alongside such distinguished Jewish American writers as Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, and Philip Roth.