David A. Kaplan

David A. Kaplan is an American writer and journalist. He works for Fortune magazine, after a 20-year career at Newsweek, where he wrote dozens of cover stories and edited the annual Newsweek-Kaplan College Guide. Among his cover pieces at Newsweek: the New Rich of Silicon Valley, the Most Hated Man in Baseball, profiles of Justices Clarence Thomas and William Brennan, the Selling of Star Wars, the birth of Netscape, the Great Home Run Chase of 1998, the Return of the Hale-Bopp Comet, and the Secret Vote That Made George W. Bush President. His cover story in 2006 broke the Hewlett-Packard boardroom spying scandal involving venture capitalist Tom Perkins, leading to Congressional hearings and California state indictments. That story was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award, the most prestigious prize in business journalism. The following year, he won a Loeb for the book "Mine's Bigger," a biography of Perkins and the revolutionary sailboat he created.

For Fortune, Kaplan profiled Charlie Rose, David Boies, Dennis Kozlowski in prison, SAS, and Lou Dobbs, as well as written an educational column. In July 2011, he wrote the much-debated cover story on "Tech Bubble 2.0." His writing has also appeared on the New York Times Op-Ed Page, and in Food & Wine, Parenting, Wired, Worth and the Washington Post. In 1988, he was a finalist for the Livingtston Award, which recognizes excellence by journalists than under 35; Kaplan's piece in the National Law Journal, "Death Row Dilemma," was about the strange case of William Henry Drake, who came within hours of electrocution despite two lawyers knowing he had not in fact killed anybody.

Kaplan also teaches media law and introductory reporting at New York University. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the New York University School of Law. During the 1994-1995 academic year, he was a John S. Knight fellow in journalism at Stanford University. Kaplan lives north of New York City with his wife, attorney Audrey S. Feinberg, and their two sons.^[1]

Kaplan has appeared frequently on television on such programs as the Today Show, Nightline, Charlie Rose, and CNN Inside Politics.

In April 2011, for a story, he auditioned to be the new voice of the Aflac duck in TV commercials. [2] Alas, out of 12,500 contestants, he wound up finishing No. 5.

Before becoming a journalist, Kaplan was a litigator at a Wall Street law firm. He was an intern with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan and a summer fellow at the White House Press Office during the Carter Administration.

Honors

• 2008: Gerald Loeb Award, best business book of the year, Mine's Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built^[2]

Books

• Mine's Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built
• The Accidental President
• The Silicon Boys

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ N.Y. Times wins 3 Loeb Awards; Sloan gets his 7th, by Joseph Altman, Associated Press, Jun 30, 2008

External links

• David Kaplan's homepage

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