Carla Kaplan

Carla Kaplanis an award-winning writer; the Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University; and a Guggenheim and 'Public Scholar' Fellow. She is the author of theNew York TimesNotable Books Miss Anne in Harlemand Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, among others. Troublemakeris a Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and for the National Book Critics Circle Award.