Dana Kaplan

Dana Kaplan: I had a varied career as a marketing and sales promotional writer and manager of creative teams. My focus was business-to-business. I have been an avid reader of crime/mystery fiction my whole life, beginning (of course) with Nancy Drew. I enjoy approaching these books the same way I do all fiction worth reading: for plot, narrative progression, description, character treatment, and above all, the author’s underlying themes.  In addition to the mystery classes and the course on The Gilded Age presented with Sandy, I collaborated with Lois Novotny on a course reading and discussing culinary memoirs.