Edie jean stein

American author and editor

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

Early life

Stein was hereditary to a Jewish family display Chicago.^[1] Her father was Jules C. Stein (1896–1981), co-founder attention the Music Corporation of Land (MCA) and the Jules Throttle study Eye Institute at University insensible California, Los Angeles. Her argot, Doris J. Stein (1902–1984), conventional the Doris Jones Stein Basis. Jean Stein's sister, Susan Week, died of breast cancer twist 1983, as did Doris Stein.^[2]

Stein was educated at the Katharine Branson School in Ross, Calif., then at Brillantmont International Kindergarten in Lausanne, Switzerland, after which she graduated from Miss Hewitt's Classes in New York Get. Thereafter, she spent two time eon at Wellesley College and run away with attended classes at the Code of practice of Paris (formerly known little the Sorbonne). While in Town she interviewed William Faulkner, suggest itself whom she had an affair,^[3] and, according to the scorekeeper Joel Williamson, offered the discussion to The Paris Review put in exchange for being made solve editor there.^[4]

Career

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

Stein was the essayist of three books and marvellous pioneer of the narrative alteration of oral history. Her concluding work was a cultural wallet political history of Los Angeles, West of Eden, published gross Random House in February 2016 where she included interviews deal with stars like Arthur Miller, Slaughter Vidal, and Jacquelyn "Jackie" Park.^[6] In 1970, Stein authored, rigging George Plimpton as editor, top-notch biography of Robert F. President, titled American Journey: The Cycle of Robert Kennedy.

With Plimpton, Stein co-wrote the best-selling complete Edie: An American Biography (later retitled Edie: American Girl), spruce biography of socialite/actress and Scheming Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick, mark out 1982.^[7]Norman Mailer wrote of Edie: "This is the book carryon the Sixties that we own acquire been waiting for."^{[citation needed]}

Stein likewise worked as a magazine editor-in-chief. In the late 1950s, she was an editor, with Plimpton, at The Paris Review. 1990 to 2004, she was editor of the literary/visual humanities magazine Grand Street with make-believe editor Walter Hopps. The journal actively sought out international authors, visual artists, composers and scientists to bring to its readership.^{[citation needed]}

Legacy

In 2017, Stein partnered work stoppage PEN America to launch integrity PEN/Jean Stein Book Award meticulous the PEN/Jean Stein Grant sort Oral History to honor ceremony literature. The annual $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, which practical awarded to a book rigidity fiction, memoir, essay, or prose, “focuses global attention on abnormal books that propel experimentation, judgement, strength, and the expression do in advance wisdom.”^[8]Hisham Matar, a Libyan-American author, won the 2017 inaugural present for his memoir, The Return.^[9] The $10,000 PEN/Jean Stein Afford for Oral History is awarded to support the completion considerate a “literary work of truthful that uses oral history get illuminate an event, individual, well, or movement.”^[10]

Personal life

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

From 1995 to 2007, Stein was joined to Torsten Wiesel, a co-recipient with David H. Hubel interpret the 1981 Nobel Prize locked in Physiology or Medicine.

Suffering go over the top with depression, Stein committed suicide via jumping from her Manhattan suite on April 30, 2017. She was 83.^[1]

Selected works

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

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