Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbong. Dads, man, sometimes it's hard to get to know

them, right? Justin Kaplan was a dad. He was also a famous Pulitzer Prize winning biographer.

And for his daughter, Hester Kaplan, those two identities never separated. And so, even though

he was physically home all the time, making dinner,

playing frisbee or whatever, his mind was always on his work, focused on the life of someone else.

Hester Kaplan's new memoir is titled Twice Born, Finding My Father in the Margins of Biography.

And she told here and now Tizziana endearing that it was a way of finally getting

to know her father through that work he was so focused on. That's coming up.

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I'm Ticiana Deering in Boston. It's here and now. Hester Kaplan grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts,

as the child of two writers, Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning biographer Justin Kaplan

and novelist Anne Bernice. Raised at a kitchen table that featured luminaries from David McCullough to Annie Dillard and

John Updike, she herself became a writer.

But as she notes in her new memoir, throughout all the novels and short stories, one subject

continued to elude her, her own father. That's the topic Hester Kaplan takes on in her new book,

Twice Born, and she joins us in the studio to talk about it. Hester, welcome. Thank you for having me.

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