James Kaplan is a novelist and nonfiction writer whose essays, reviews, and profiles have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and New York. He co-authored John McEnroe's autobiography, Serious, a number-one New York Times bestseller and coauthored the bestselling Dean and Me with Jerry Lewis and the first volume of his definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, Frank: The Voice. He lives in Westchester, New York, with his wife and three sons.
Kaplan writes with an addictive wiliness, vigour and feeling that suit his subject . . . to a tee - Daily Telegraph Authoritative and enjoyable . . . important too - Sunday Times A wealth of entertaining detail about the singer's career, gnawing personal insecurity, lavish sexual indulgence, and obsessive musical virtuosity - The Observer Evokes a sense of period with crackling energy - Sunday Express Very few writers can write coherently about what makes music work. Fewer still can tell what makes it profound. Kaplan can - The Age At last, Sinatra has the biography he deserves - The Irish Times