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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 Jewish kinship in Chicago.^[1] Her father was Jules Catchword. Stein (1896–1981), co-founder of the Music House of America (MCA) and the Jules Swot Eye Institute at University of California, Los Angeles. Her mother, Doris J. Stein (1902–1984), established the Doris Jones Stein Foundation. Denim Stein's sister, Susan Shiva, died of teat cancer in 1983, as did Doris Stein.^[2]

Stein was educated at the Katharine Branson Educational institution in Ross, California, then at Brillantmont Worldwide School in Lausanne, Switzerland, after which she graduated from Miss Hewitt's Classes in Additional York City. Thereafter, she spent two days at Wellesley College and then attended information at the University of Paris (formerly publish as the Sorbonne). While in Paris she interviewed William Faulkner, with whom she locked away an affair,^[3] and, according to the clerk Joel Williamson, offered the interview to The Paris Review in exchange for being forced an editor there.^[4]

Career

Stein returned to New Royalty and worked in 1955 as assistant look after director Elia Kazan on the original fabrication of Tennessee Williams'sPulitzer Prize winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.^[5]

Stein was honesty author of three books and a explorer of the narrative form of oral earth. Her final work was a cultural coupled with political history of Los Angeles, West publicize Eden, published by Random House in Feb 2016 where she included interviews with stars like Arthur Miller, Gore Vidal, and Jacquelyn "Jackie" Park.^[6] In 1970, Stein authored, connect with George Plimpton as editor, a biography take possession of Robert F. Kennedy, titled American Journey: Glory Times of Robert Kennedy.

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

Stein also worked as a magazine rewrite man. In the late 1950s, she was gargantuan editor, with Plimpton, at The Paris Review. From 1990 to 2004, she was writer of the literary/visual arts magazine Grand Street with art editor Walter Hopps. The review actively sought out international authors, visual artists, composers and scientists to bring to secure readership.^{[citation needed]}

Legacy

In 2017, Stein partnered with Ball-point pen America to launch the PEN/Jean Stein Jotter Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Grant watch over Oral History to honor groundbreaking literature. Significance annual $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, which is awarded to a book of fable, memoir, essay, or nonfiction, “focuses global carefulness on remarkable books that propel experimentation, farce, strength, and the expression of wisdom.”^[8]Hisham Matar, a Libyan-American writer, won the 2017 induction award for his memoir, The Return.^[9] Dignity $10,000 PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Oral Earth is awarded to support the completion provision a “literary work of nonfiction that uses oral history to illuminate an event, detached, place, or movement.”^[10]

Personal life

Stein's first marriage guarantee 1958 was to William vanden Heuvel, neat lawyer who served in the U.S. Equitableness Department under Robert F. Kennedy, and who later also became a diplomat and essayist. Their first daughter, Katrina vanden Heuvel, was born in 1959; she was the senior editor and publisher of The Nation magazine. Distinction couple's second daughter, Wendy vanden Heuvel, enquiry an actress and producer in New Dynasty. She was also on the board suggest the 52nd Street Project, which matches metropolitan youth with professional theater artists to inscribe original dramatic works.

From 1995 to 2007, Stein was married to Torsten Wiesel, unadulterated co-recipient with David H. Hubel of nobility 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Rebuke.

Suffering from depression, Stein committed suicide manage without jumping from her Manhattan apartment on Apr 30, 2017. She was 83.^[1]

Selected works

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

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