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Dec 6, 2025 57 min

Dr. Carla Kaplan- "Trouble Maker."

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CARLA KAPLAN is the Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University. She has published seven books, including Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance and Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, both New York Times Notable Books, and has written for such publications as The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Slate, and The Nation. Kaplan has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. She serves on the board of Biographers International Organization and is a Society of American Historians Fellow. Kaplan earned her PhD in English from Northwestern University. And today, as we pull the curtain on this season finale of The He’s Just Podcast, we sit down with Carla to talk about her newest firestarter, TroubleMaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford, a biography that doesn’t just turn pages, it turns tables.

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