James Kaplan has been writ­ing not­ed biog­ra­phy, jour­nal­ism, and fic­tion for more than four decades. The author of Frank: The Voice and Sina­tra: The Chair­man, the defin­i­tive two‑volume biog­ra­phy of Frank Sina­tra, he has writ­ten more than one hun­dred major pro­files of fig­ures rang­ing from Miles Davis to Meryl Streep, from Arthur Miller to Lar­ry David.