Robert Kaplow

Robert Kaplow is a novelist and teacher whose works include
*"Two in the City"
*"Alex Icicle: A Romance in Ten Torrid Chapters"
*"Alessandra in Love" and "Alessandra in Between", two comic tales about the romantic tribulations of a sardonic and intelligent high school junior
*"The Cat Who Killed Lillian Jackson Braun: A Parody", satirizing the books of Lilian Jackson Braun and the mystery genre
* and "Me and Orson Welles: A Novel", a romantic coming-of-age story set in 1937 around the founding of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre."Me and Orson Welles" was a New York Times bestsellerFact|date=January 2008 and is currently (February 2008) being filmed by Director Richard Linklater and stars Zac Efron and Claire Danes. The movie is being filmed in The Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man. Kaplow's most recent novel is "Who's Killing the Great Writers of America?", a satire of writers, critics, and publishers. For National Public Radio's "Morning Edition", Mr. Kaplow created "Moe Moskowitz and the Punsters," a series of musical and satirical pop-culture parodies. He is currently completing "Nobody's Heart: A Novel About Teachers"Fact|date=January 2008.

Kaplow attended Westfield High School in Westfield, New Jersey, where he recorded his first satirical sketches as a student, and is a graduate of Rutgers University.Goldblatt, Jennifer. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E4DE1430F932A25752C0A9629C8B63&scp=2&sq=%22Robert+Kaplow%22 "IN PERSON; Trapped In the 30's, On the Radio"] , "The New York Times", January 11, 2004. Accessed January 16, 2008.]

He is currently an English teacher in Summit, New Jersey.Fact|date=January 2008

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