Hester Margaret Kaplan Stein is an American

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writer, and

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Life

Kaplan was born to a

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family, the daughter of novelist Anne (née Bernays) and author

Justin Kaplan Justin Daniel Kaplan (September 5, 1925– March 2, 2014) was an American writer and editor. The general editor of ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'' (16th and 17th eds.), he was best known as a biographer, particularly of Samuel Clemens, Linc ...

. Her maternal grandparents were Doris Fleischman and

Edward Bernays Edward Louis Bernays ( ; ; November 22, 1891 − March 9, 1995) was an American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". While credited with advancing the profession ...

, "the father of public relations" and nephew of

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( ; ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies seen as originating fro ...

. She grew up in Cambridge and graduated from

Barnard College Barnard College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a grou ...

. She has taught writing at

Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase th ...

and teaches at

Lesley University Lesley University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1909 to educate teachers. Originally founded as a women's college, male students were admitted beginning in 2005. History 1909–1998 Th ...

. Her work appeared in ''Ploughshares'', ''Story'', ''Glimmer Train'', and ''Agni'', "The Private Life of Skin", appeared in ''Southwest Review''. In 1987, she married Dr. Michael Stein.

Awards

* 1999

Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press in to a North American writer in a blind-judging contest for a collection of English language short stories. The collection is subsequently ...

* Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship * 2008

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Fellowship * 2020

Fellowship

Works

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Anthologies

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Work appearing in ''Ploughshares''

*"Goodwell", ''Ploughshares'', Spring 1989 *"Companion Animal", ''Ploughshares'', Spring 2003

References

External links

Official website
Living people American women short story writers Barnard College alumni Year of birth missing (living people) American people of Austrian-Jewish descent American people of Russian-Jewish descent American women novelists Jewish American novelists Lesley University faculty 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American short story writers Novelists from Massachusetts Bernays family Freud family {{US-novelist-stub