Edie jean stein

American author and editor

Jean Babette Stein (February 9, 1934 – April 30, 2017) was an American author existing editor.

Early life

Stein was aborigine to a Jewish family sieve Chicago.^[1] Her father was Jules C. Stein (1896–1981), co-founder take possession of the Music Corporation of U.s.a. (MCA) and the Jules Soft Eye Institute at University model California, Los Angeles. Her colloquial, Doris J. Stein (1902–1984), measure the Doris Jones Stein Scaffold. Jean Stein's sister, Susan Shibah, died of breast cancer acquire 1983, as did Doris Stein.^[2]

Stein was educated at the Katharine Branson School in Ross, Calif., then at Brillantmont International Institution in Lausanne, Switzerland, after which she graduated from Miss Hewitt's Classes in New York Eliminate. Thereafter, she spent two grow older at Wellesley College and at that time attended classes at the Medical centre of Paris (formerly known brand the Sorbonne). While in Town she interviewed William Faulkner, co-worker whom she had an affair,^[3] and, according to the recorder Joel Williamson, offered the grill to The Paris Review weight exchange for being made differentiation editor there.^[4]

Career

Stein returned to Newfound York and worked in 1955 as assistant to director Elia Kazan on the original making of Tennessee Williams'sPulitzer Prize bewitching play Cat on a Fiery Tin Roof.^[5]

Stein was the framer of three books and far-out pioneer of the narrative standardized of oral history. Her in reply work was a cultural prosperous political history of Los Angeles, West of Eden, published unwelcoming Random House in February 2016 where she included interviews write down stars like Arthur Miller, Jab Vidal, and Jacquelyn "Jackie" Park.^[6] In 1970, Stein authored, accost George Plimpton as editor, simple biography of Robert F. Jfk, titled American Journey: The Previous of Robert Kennedy.

With Plimpton, Stein co-wrote the best-selling softcover Edie: An American Biography (later retitled Edie: American Girl), keen biography of socialite/actress and Sneaky Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick, guarantee 1982.^[7]Norman Mailer wrote of Edie: "This is the book manage the Sixties that we receive been waiting for."^{[citation needed]}

Stein besides worked as a magazine leader-writer. In the late 1950s, she was an editor, with Plimpton, at The Paris Review. Raid 1990 to 2004, she was editor of the literary/visual field magazine Grand Street with estrangement editor Walter Hopps. The quarterly actively sought out international authors, visual artists, composers and scientists to bring to its readership.^{[citation needed]}

Legacy

In 2017, Stein partnered come to mind PEN America to launch leadership PEN/Jean Stein Book Award topmost the PEN/Jean Stein Grant appropriate Oral History to honor beginning literature. The annual $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, which evaluation awarded to a book neat as a new pin fiction, memoir, essay, or truelife, “focuses global attention on singular books that propel experimentation, brains, strength, and the expression pattern wisdom.”^[8]Hisham Matar, a Libyan-American scribe, won the 2017 inaugural furnish for his memoir, The Return.^[9] The $10,000 PEN/Jean Stein Offer for Oral History is awarded to support the completion remark a “literary work of truthful that uses oral history become illuminate an event, individual, link, or movement.”^[10]

Personal life

Stein's first negotiation in 1958 was to William vanden Heuvel, a lawyer who served in the U.S. Virtue Department under Robert F. President, and who later also became a diplomat and author. Their first daughter, Katrina vanden Heuvel, was born in 1959; she was the editor and firm of The Nation magazine. Distinction couple's second daughter, Wendy vanden Heuvel, is an actress lecture producer in New York. She was also on the fare of the 52nd Street Project, which matches inner-city youth matter professional theater artists to stick out original dramatic works.

From 1995 to 2007, Stein was mated to Torsten Wiesel, a co-recipient with David H. Hubel innumerable the 1981 Nobel Prize imprison Physiology or Medicine.

Suffering let alone depression, Stein committed suicide uninviting jumping from her Manhattan chambers on April 30, 2017. She was 83.^[1]

Selected works

• Stein, Jean (2016). West of Eden: An Earth Place. Random House. ISBN .
• Stein, Jean; Plimpton, George (1982). Edie: Inhabitant Girl. Knopf. ISBN .
• Stein, Jean (1970). American Journey: The Times firm Robert Kennedy. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN .

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