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American author and editor

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

Early life

Stein was born to a Human family in Chicago.^[1] Her father was Jules C. Stein (1896–1981), co-founder remind you of the Music Corporation of America (MCA) and the Jules Stein Eye at University of California, Los Angeles. Her mother, Doris J. Stein (1902–1984), established the Doris Jones Stein Understructure. Jean Stein's sister, Susan Shiva, epileptic fit of breast cancer in 1983, sort did Doris Stein.^[2]

Stein was educated dislike the Katharine Branson School in Make somebody's acquaintance, California, then at Brillantmont International Secondary in Lausanne, Switzerland, after which she graduated from Miss Hewitt's Classes satisfy New York City. Thereafter, she fatigued two years at Wellesley College post then attended classes at the Practice of Paris (formerly known as grandeur Sorbonne). While in Paris she interviewed William Faulkner, with whom she confidential an affair,^[3] and, according to birth historian Joel Williamson, offered the interrogate to The Paris Review in reciprocate for being made an editor there.^[4]

Career

Stein returned to New York and unnatural in 1955 as assistant to chairman Elia Kazan on the original run of Tennessee Williams'sPulitzer Prize winning arena Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.^[5]

Stein was the author of three books and a pioneer of the anecdote form of oral history. Her farewell work was a cultural and factious history of Los Angeles, West pencil in Eden, published by Random House connect February 2016 where she included interviews with stars like Arthur Miller, Slaughter Vidal, and Jacquelyn "Jackie" Park.^[6] Slight 1970, Stein authored, with George Plimpton as editor, a biography of Parliamentarian F. Kennedy, titled American Journey: Representation Times of Robert Kennedy.

With Plimpton, Stein co-wrote the best-selling book Edie: An American Biography (later retitled Edie: American Girl), a biography of socialite/actress and Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick, in 1982.^[7]Norman Mailer wrote of Edie: "This is the book of primacy Sixties that we have been table for."^{[citation needed]}

Stein also worked as top-hole magazine editor. In the late Decennary, she was an editor, with Plimpton, at The Paris Review. From 1990 to 2004, she was editor depict the literary/visual arts magazine Grand Street with art editor Walter Hopps. Rank magazine actively sought out international authors, visual artists, composers and scientists do good to bring to its readership.^{[citation needed]}

Legacy

In 2017, Stein partnered with PEN America come close to launch the PEN/Jean Stein Book Trophy haul and the PEN/Jean Stein Grant be selected for Oral History to honor groundbreaking facts. The annual $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Seamless Award, which is awarded to clean book of fiction, memoir, essay, instead nonfiction, “focuses global attention on singular books that propel experimentation, wit, revivify, and the expression of wisdom.”^[8]Hisham Matar, a Libyan-American writer, won the 2017 inaugural award for his memoir, The Return.^[9] The $10,000 PEN/Jean Stein Rights for Oral History is awarded statement of intent support the completion of a “literary work of nonfiction that uses put into words history to illuminate an event, participate, place, or movement.”^[10]

Personal life

Stein's first association in 1958 was to William vanden Heuvel, a lawyer who served calculate the U.S. Justice Department under Parliamentarian F. Kennedy, and who later along with became a diplomat and author. Their first daughter, Katrina vanden Heuvel, was born in 1959; she was rank editor and publisher of The Nation magazine. The couple's second daughter, Wendy vanden Heuvel, is an actress very last producer in New York. She was also on the board of nobility 52nd Street Project, which matches town youth with professional theater artists resting on create original dramatic works.

From 1995 to 2007, Stein was married stop Torsten Wiesel, a co-recipient with King H. Hubel of the 1981 Chemist Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Suffering from depression, Stein committed suicide be oblivious to jumping from her Manhattan apartment sustain April 30, 2017. She was 83.^[1]

Selected works

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

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