Jean Stein
Jean Babette Stein (born February 9, 1934 in Los Angeles or Chicago ; died April 30, 2017 in New York City ) was an American author and editor .
Life
Jean Stein's father Jules C. Stein founded the Music Corporation of America (MCA) in 1924 . Stein grew up in Los Angeles and went to school in Ross , Lausanne and New York City . She attended Wellesley College and lectured at the Sorbonne . At Christmas 1953 she met William Faulkner in St. Moritz , when she was 19 years old and he was 56. The following year they met in Rome, and Stein then gave receptions for him in her uncle's Paris apartment. The affair with the "father figure" dragged on until mid-1956. Her interview with Faulkner, which he edited for her, appeared in The Paris Review , which she edited for a while.
Back in New York in 1955, she was assistant director for Elia Kazan's world premiere of Tennessee Williams ' play The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .
Stein wrote a biography on Robert F. Kennedy in 1970 with George Plimpton as editor . Also with Plimpton's support, Edie appeared in 1982 : American Girl, her biography about the actress Edie Sedgwick in the form of an oral history ; the book became a bestseller. Stein became the editor of the literary magazine Grand Street in 1990 ; the magazine ceased to appear in 2004. In 2016, Stein published West of Eden, a book about Los Angeles that is also a Hollywood film history .
Stein was married to William vanden Heuvel , Katrina vanden Heuvel (* 1959) is one of two daughters, the divorce took place in 1969. Stein married the neurophysiologist Torsten N. Wiesel (* 1924) in 1995 , this marriage was divorced in 2007.
Fonts
- with George Plimpton (Ed.): American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy . Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York 1970, OCLC 4556742 .
- with George Plimpton (Ed.): Edie: American Girl. Grove Press, New York, NY 1982, ISBN 0-8021-3410-6
- West of Eden: an American place . Random House, New York, NY 2016, ISBN 978-0-8129-9840-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Stein in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Sandomir: Jean Stein, Who Chronicled Wealth, Fame and Influence, Dies at 83. In: The New York Times . May 2, 2017, accessed May 5, 2017 .
- ^ Joel Williamson: William Faulkner and southern history . Oxford Univ. Press, New York 1993, p. 291.
- ^ Joel Williamson: William Faulkner and southern history . Oxford Univ. Press, New York 1993, p. 298.
- ^ Joel Williamson: William Faulkner and southern history . Oxford Univ. Press, New York 1993, p. 304.
- ^ Natalie Robins: Alien Ink: The FBI's War on Freedom of Expression . New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1992, p. 424 f.
- ↑ Jean Stein. In: Internet Broadway Database . Retrieved May 5, 2017.
- ↑ Danny Leigh: Fallen Angels. Reviewed in: Financial Times , February 6, 2016, p. 8.
- ↑ Gaby Wood: West of Eden by Jean Stein, review: 'one of the best books ever written on Hollywood'. Reviewed in: The Telegraph , January 24, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stone, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stein, Jean Babette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles or Chicago |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 2017 |
| Place of death | New York City |