Background
Alice Kaplan was born on June 22, 1954 in Minneapolis, in the family of Leonore Yaeger and Sidney Joseph Kaplan.
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1986
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1994
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2000
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Alice Kaplan was born on June 22, 1954 in Minneapolis, in the family of Leonore Yaeger and Sidney Joseph Kaplan.
In 1973 Alice did a year of study at the Université de Bordeaux III in Bordeaux, France. She obtained her BA in French at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975 and her PhD in French at Yale University in 1981.
Before her arrival at Yale, she was the Gilbert, Louis and Edward Lehrman Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature and History at Duke University and founding director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies there. Kaplan is also the translator into English of Louis Guilloux's novel OK, Joe, Evelyne Bloch-Dano's Madame Proust: A Biography, and three books by Roger Grenier: Piano Music for Four Hands, Another November, and The Difficulty of Being a Dog. Kaplan's research interests include autobiography and memory, translation in theory and practice, literature and the law, twentieth-century French literature, French cultural studies, and post-war French culture.
Alice's recent undergraduate courses include courses on Camus, Proust, and Céline. Theories of the archive. French national identity. “The Experience of Being Foreign”. And “Literary Trials.” Upcoming courses include “The Modern French Novel” (with Maurice Samuels) and a film course on French cinema of the Occupation. She is represented by the Marly Rusoff Literary Agency.
The Collaborator was awarded the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History and was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critic’s Circle awards. The Interpreter was the recipient of the 2005 Henry Adams Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government, and French Lessons was nominated for the 1993 National Books Critics Circle Award (for autobiography and biography). She was the recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1994.
Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Modern Language Association, American Literature Translators Association, Association Pour l'Autobiographie et le Patrimoine Autobiographique.
