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Jean Stein was educated at The Katharine Branson School in [[Ross, California]], then at Chateau Brilliantmont in [[Lausanne]], Switzerland, after which she graduated from Miss Hewitt's school in New York City. Thereafter, she spent two years at [[Wellesley College]] and then attended classes at the [[University of Paris]] (formerly known as the [[Sorbonne]]). While in Paris she interviewed [[William Faulkner]] for ''[[The Paris Review]]'' and joined the magazinr as an editor. |
Jean Stein was educated at The Katharine Branson School in [[Ross, California]], then at Chateau Brilliantmont in [[Lausanne]], Switzerland, after which she graduated from Miss Hewitt's school in New York City. Thereafter, she spent two years at [[Wellesley College]] and then attended classes at the [[University of Paris]] (formerly known as the [[Sorbonne]]). While in Paris she interviewed [[William Faulkner]] for ''[[The Paris Review]]'' and joined the magazinr as an editor. |
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She returned to New York and worked in 1955 as assistant to director [[Elia Kazan]] on the original production of [[Tennessee Williams|Tennessee Williams']] [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning play ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=104252] |
She returned to New York and worked in 1955 as assistant to director [[Elia Kazan]] on the original production of [[Tennessee Williams|Tennessee Williams's]] [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning play ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]'' [http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=104252]. Jean Stein's first marriage in 1958 was to [[William vanden Heuvel]], a lawyer who served in the U.S. Justice Department under [[Robert F. Kennedy]], and who later also became a diplomat and author. Since 1984, he has been the chairman of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. |
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Jean Stein and William vanden Heuvel's first daughter, [[Katrina vanden Heuvel]], was born in 1959; she is now the editor and publisher of ''The Nation'' magazine. The couple's second daughter, Wendy vanden Heuvel, was born in 1961, and she is an actress and producer in New York. She is also on the board of the ''52nd Street Project'', which matches inner-city youth with professional theater artists to create original dramatic works. |
Jean Stein and William vanden Heuvel's first daughter, [[Katrina vanden Heuvel]], was born in 1959; she is now the editor and publisher of ''The Nation'' magazine. The couple's second daughter, Wendy vanden Heuvel, was born in 1961, and she is an actress and producer in New York. She is also on the board of the ''52nd Street Project'', which matches inner-city youth with professional theater artists to create original dramatic works. |
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Jean Stein (born 1934) is an American author and editor.
Biography
Jean Stein grew up in Los Angeles, California, USA, having been born into a prominent family in the entertainment world. She is the author of two books and a pioneer of the narrative form in oral history.[citation needed] She is presently at work on a cultural and political history of Los Angeles, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
In 1970, Stein authored, with George Plimpton as editor, a biography of Robert F. Kennedy, entitled: American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy, as well as in 1982 the best-selling book, Edie: American Girl, based on the life of socialite/actress and Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick. [1] Norman Mailer wrote of Edie: "This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for."[citation needed]
Stein also worked as an editor for magazines. In the late 1950s, she was an editor of The Paris Review. From 1990-2004, Jean Stein was editor of the literary/visual arts magazine Grand Street. [2] with the curator Walter Hopps as art editor. With Stein and Hopps at the helm, the magazine actively sought out international authors, visual artists, composers and scientists to bring to its readership [3].
Personal background
Jean Stein's father was Jules C. Stein, the founder of Music Corporation of America [4] and founder of the Jules Stein Eye Institute [1] at UCLA. Jean Stein's mother was born Doris Jones, and she established the Doris Jones Stein Foundation.
Jean Stein was educated at The Katharine Branson School in Ross, California, then at Chateau Brilliantmont in Lausanne, Switzerland, after which she graduated from Miss Hewitt's school in New York City. Thereafter, she spent two years at Wellesley College and then attended classes at the University of Paris (formerly known as the Sorbonne). While in Paris she interviewed William Faulkner for The Paris Review and joined the magazinr as an editor.
She returned to New York and worked in 1955 as assistant to director Elia Kazan on the original production of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [2]. Jean Stein's first marriage in 1958 was to William vanden Heuvel, a lawyer who served in the U.S. Justice Department under Robert F. Kennedy, and who later also became a diplomat and author. Since 1984, he has been the chairman of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
Jean Stein and William vanden Heuvel's first daughter, Katrina vanden Heuvel, was born in 1959; she is now the editor and publisher of The Nation magazine. The couple's second daughter, Wendy vanden Heuvel, was born in 1961, and she is an actress and producer in New York. She is also on the board of the 52nd Street Project, which matches inner-city youth with professional theater artists to create original dramatic works.
From 1995 to 2007 Jean Stein was married to Torsten Wiesel, a co-recipient with David H. Hubel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
References
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=6XCIqw48uSwC&pg=PP13&dq=Jean+Stein+george+Editor+Edie&sig=ACfU3U0LkKRN3-Th98DUOAjo6WjNNtKEZQ
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=4mBwBf-U-lQC&pg=PR18&dq=Jean+Stein+Grand+Street+Editor&sig=ACfU3U3kaBK1SAjdXcUfS_6OXNfCoimDtA
- ^ Grand Street included such contributors as: Adonis (Syria), Hilton Als (USA), Yehuda Amichai (Israel), Amiri Baraka (USA), Daniel Barenboim (Argentina/Israel/Spain), Roberto Bolaño (Chile), Pierre Boulez (France), Peter Brook (UK), Vija Celmins (USA), Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique), Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine), Mike Davis (USA), Mohammed Dib (Algeria), William Eggleston (USA), Mitchell Feigenbaum (USA), D. Carleton Gajdusek (USA), John Kenneth Galbraith (Canada/USA), Eduardo Galeano (Uruguay), Durs Grünbein (Germany), David Hammons (USA), Mona Hatoum (Lebanon), Michael Heizer (USA), Dennis Hopper (USA), Dương Thu Hương (Vietnam), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Cuba), Jasper Johns (USA), A. L. Kennedy (UK), Elias Khoury (Lebanon), Mary-Claire King (USA), Linda Lê (France), György Ligeti (Romania), Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt), Enrique Vila-Matas (Spain), Charles Merewether (UK), Brenda Milner (Canada), Czesław Miłosz (Poland), Ariane Mnouchkine (France), Abdelrahman Munif (Jordan), Kenzaburō Ōe (Japan), Orhan Pamuk (Turkey), Suzan-Lori Parks (USA), Robert Rauschenberg (USA), Charles Ray (USA), Robin Robertson (UK), Juan Rulfo (Mexico), Edward Ruscha (USA), Edward W. Said (USA), Doris Salcedo (Colombia), José Saramago (Portugal), Julian Schnabel (USA), Fiona Shaw (Ireland), Charles Simic (Serbia/USA), Rebecca Solnit (USA), Vladimir Sorokin (Russia), Terry Southern (USA), Saul Steinberg (USA), Lewis Thomas (USA), Edgar Varèse (France), William T. Vollmann (USA), Abdourahman A. Waberi (Djibouti), Kara Walker (USA), David Foster Wallace (USA), John Waters (USA), and Can Xue (China).
- ^ http://www.nndb.com/people/285/000100982/