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We discuss Carla's wonderful new biography Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford. What a great title! https://carlakaplan.com/ Carla Kaplan is the Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University, where, as the Founding Director of the university’s Humanities Center, she created a conversational hub dedicated to diversity. She has held positions at Yale Univerity, the University of Southern California, Wellesley College, and the University of Illinois, and also teaches writing through arts councils and writers’ centers. Kaplan’s previous books include Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, the first published collection of a major African American woman’s letters. This melding of biography, cultural history, and correspondence drew on nearly fifty archives and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award, a New York Times Notable Book, a New York magazine “top five” book of the season, a Book-of-the-Month Club pick, and the subject of feature articles in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times.

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