Robert Kaplow

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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 bestseller^{[citation needed]} 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.^[1] He is currently completing Nobody's Heart: A Novel About Teachers^{[citation needed]}.

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.^[1]

He is currently an English teacher in Summit, New Jersey.^{[citation needed]}