Renée Kaplan

While writing SHAKING HER ASSETS, her first novel, Renée
has been a television producer at 60 Minutes Wednesday on
CBS (see the links to some of her stories in Other Work).
Before becoming a television journalist, Renée worked in
print, first as an editor for the now-defunct magazine
Gear, and then as a writer and editor for the weekly
newspaper The New York Observer. Renée graduated summa cum
laude, totally naïve and a little misguided from Princeton,
with a Bachelor’s in History and European Cultural studies.
She then graduated from Harvard Law School, a little less
misguided and thoroughly intent on never becoming a lawyer.
In this, she’s succeeded. She was born in 1973 in Ithaca,
New York, and grew up between Ithaca and Paris, France, an
odd back-and-forth between redneck and highbrow, which
probably still sums her up today.