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Author David Michael Kaplan to Visit Westminster
Award-winning writer, David Michael Kaplan, will visit Williams Hill on Oct. 19. Kaplan, whose short story “Doe Season” has been a staple of the Fourth Form English curriculum for years, will lead English classes throughout the day, as well as give a reading in the Werner Centennial Theater.
A graduate of Suffield Academy who remembers touring Westminster during his swing through New England boarding schools, Kaplan is a Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago where he also directs the creative writing program. After graduating from Yale University, Kaplan earned an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and subsequently began publishing short stories in the 1980s. “Doe Season,” the opening story in his collection Comfort, was included in the Best American Short Stories.
He has published stories in Playboy, Redbook, Mirabella, Triquarterly, and Doubletake, among other magazines and journals, and his work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, The O’Henry Prize Stories and The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary American Fiction. Kaplan also published a novel, Skating in the Dark, in 1991 and a textbook entitled Revision: A Creative Approach to Writing and Re-writing Fiction in 1997. In 1999, he received the Nelson Aigren Short Story Award.
Kaplan’s visit is made possible by a generous gift from the Ford-Goldfarb Fund, which was established by Trustee Maureen Ford-Goldfarb and her daughter Kirsten Ford ‘00 in 2005 to support English Department enrichment activities. Last year, the fund enabled the whole school to travel to the Yale Repertory Theater in February to see In the Continuum, and it helped make possible the visit of poet Naomi Shihab Nye in the spring.
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A graduate of Suffield Academy who remembers touring Westminster during his swing through New England boarding schools, Kaplan is a Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago where he also directs the creative writing program. After graduating from Yale University, Kaplan earned an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and subsequently began publishing short stories in the 1980s. “Doe Season,” the opening story in his collection Comfort, was included in the Best American Short Stories.
He has published stories in Playboy, Redbook, Mirabella, Triquarterly, and Doubletake, among other magazines and journals, and his work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, The O’Henry Prize Stories and The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary American Fiction. Kaplan also published a novel, Skating in the Dark, in 1991 and a textbook entitled Revision: A Creative Approach to Writing and Re-writing Fiction in 1997. In 1999, he received the Nelson Aigren Short Story Award.
Kaplan’s visit is made possible by a generous gift from the Ford-Goldfarb Fund, which was established by Trustee Maureen Ford-Goldfarb and her daughter Kirsten Ford ‘00 in 2005 to support English Department enrichment activities. Last year, the fund enabled the whole school to travel to the Yale Repertory Theater in February to see In the Continuum, and it helped make possible the visit of poet Naomi Shihab Nye in the spring.
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