Erin Aubry Kaplan Biography
Erin Aubry Kaplan is a journalist and columnist based in Los Angeles. Since 1992, she has been writing about black political, economic, and cultural issues. She contributes to the op-ed section of the Los Angeles Times.
Erin Aubry Kaplan Age
Kaplan was born on 6 January 1962, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Erin is 61 years old as of July 2023.
Erin Aubry Kaplan Education- Family
Kaplan was born in Los Angeles and reared there, though her family is from New Orleans. Kaplan earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Los Angeles, and currently teaches at Antioch University Los Angeles.
Erin Aubry Kaplan Wife- Spouse
For 15 years, she was married to Alan Kaplan, a high school history teacher in Los Angeles. He passed away in 2015.
Erin Aubry Kaplan Career
She contributes to the Los Angeles Times’ op-ed section, and was a weekly op-ed columnist from 2005 to 2007 — the paper’s first black weekly op-ed columnist in recent history. She has worked as a staff writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Weekly and as a regular contributor for various publications, including Salon.com, Essence, and Ms. Kaplan is also a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and a frequent columnist for make/shift, a quarterly feminist magazine founded in 2007.”Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood” (Villard, Washington Square Press), “Step Into A World” (Wiley & Sons), and “Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood” (Doubleday).
Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Alice Walker contributed to the previous volume, which won an American volume Award in 2005. She received the PEN USA Journalism Award in 2001. Kaplan has written two novels. Her debut book, Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Dispaches From a Black Journalista, was published in 2011 as a compilation of essays and reportage. Her second book, I Heart Obama, was published in 2016 and is an extensive essay about the cultural and personal significance of the first black American president.
Erin Aubry Kaplan Net Worth
Aubry has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.