Janice Kaplan

Biography

Janice Kaplan is widely known for her achievements as a writer, television producer and magazine editor. As the Editor-in-Chief of Parade, the most widely read publication in America, she brought new energy and excitement to the magazine, increasing readership to over 74 million every Sunday. She attracted some of America's best writers and biggest-name celebrities. The magazine's two cover stories by President Barack Obama got international attention, as did her own interviews with stars including Barbra Streisand, Clint Eastwood, Matt Damon, and Daniel Craig.

Janice was deputy editor of TV Guide magazine and executive producer of the TV Guide Television Group, where she created and produced more than 30 television shows that aired primetime on ABC, FOX, VH1 and other networks. She began her career as an on-air sports reporter for CBS Radio and went on to be a producer at ABC-TV’s Good Morning America, where she won awards for investigative reporting.

Author and co-author of eleven books, her bestselling novels include The Botox Diaries, Mine Are Spectacular! and The Men I Didn't Marry. Her popular Lacey Fields mysteries include Looks To Die For and A Job To Kill For, and her books have been translated and published in more than a dozen countries. A former columnist at Seventeen magazine, she was a contributing editor at Vogue and has written hundreds of articles for national magazines.

Janice appears frequently on television shows including Today, Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight and CBS Early Show, and is a popular speaker around the country. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and won Yale's Murray Fellowship for writing. Kaplan lives in Larchmont, New York and New York City with her husband and has two sons at Yale.

Selected Works

Mystery
“Suspense fans looking for frothy, wacky fun will be well rewarded.”
--Publisher’s Weekly
"A heady new cocktail of smart and sassy storytelling."
Fiction
"A delicious page-turner" --ABC-TV Good Morning America
“A hilarious hit.”
--People Magazine
“Fast paced and with a zinger on every page.”
--The Washington Post