David A. Kaplan

Who is David A. Kaplan?

David A. Kaplan is an American writer and journalist. He works for Fortune magazine, after a 20-year career at Newsweek, where he wrote dozens of cover stories, as well as edited the annual Newsweek-Kaplan College Guide. Among his cover pieces at Newsweek: the New Rich of Silicon Valley, the Most Hated Man in Baseball, profiles of Justices Clarence Thomas and William Brennan, the Selling of Star Wars, the birth of Netscape, the Great Home Run Chase of 1998, the Return of the Hale-Bopp Comet, and the Secret Vote That Made George W. Bush President. His Newsweek cover story in 2006 broke the notorious Hewlett-Packard boardroom spying scandal involving venture capitalist Tom Perkins, which led to Congressional hearings and California state indictments. That story was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award, the most prestigious prize in business journalism. The following year, Kaplan won a Loeb for the book "Mine's Bigger," a biography of Perkins and the revolutionary sailboat he created. Kaplan also broke stories about how Bush v. Gore might have just gone the other way and about how the administration of death warrants in Florida executions was being manipulated for political purposes by the governor.