Mitchell Kaplan opened the first Books & Books bookshop in 1982 in Coral Gables, Florida. Since then, Books & Books has grown to seven bookshops, two of which include restaurants.
Mitchell served as president of the American Booksellers Association and received the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation.
As co-founder of the Miami Book Fair in 1985, Mitchell has served as the chairperson of its Board of Directors and continues to guide the programming team at the Fair which takes place on the campus of Miami Dade College in the heart of downtown Miami. Each year the Fair presents close to 500 authors over one week in November, along with a street festival, where bookstalls line the streets adjacent to the campus. Programs take place in Creole, Spanish and English, reflecting the diversity of Miami.
Mitchell also hosts The Literary Life podcast, and along with producer Paula Mazur, owns Mazur Kaplan, a film production company bringing books to screen.
Books & Books
Flowers For Algernon, Daniel Keyes
Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin
The Paris Bookseller, Kerri Maher
Continental Drift, Humphrey Muller
Bewilderment: A Novel, Richard Powers
Klara And The Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein
How the South Won the Civil War, Heather Cox Richardson
On Tyranny Graphic Edition, Timothy Snyder, Nora Krug
Lost & Found: A Memoir, Kathryn Schulz
The Year of Dangerous Days, Nicholas Griffin