Discipline: Literature

Janice Kaplan

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1977

Janice Kaplan is the editor-in-chief of Parade. She was deputy editor of TV Guide magazine and executive producer of the TV Guide Television Group, where she created and produced more than 30 television shows that aired primetime on ABC, FOX, VH1 and other networks. She began her career as an on-air sports reporter for CBS Radio and went on to help produce ABC-TV’s Good Morning America. There, she won many awards for investigative reporting.

In addition to bestselling non-fiction, Kaplan wrote numerous popular novels, including The Botox Diaries, Mine Are Spectacular!, The Men I Didn’t Marry, and the Lacy Fields mystery series. Her books have been translated and published in more than a dozen countries. She appears frequently on television shows including Today, Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight, and CBS Early Show, and is a popular speaker around the country. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, winning Yale’s Murray Fellowship for writing.

Studios

Star

Janice Kaplan worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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