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Jean Stein (1) (1934–2017)

Autor(a) de Edie: An American Biography

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About the Author

Jean Babette Stein was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 9, 1934. She attended Wellesley College and the Sorbonne, but did not graduate. While in France in 1955, she interviewed William Faulkner for The Paris Review. She worked for The Paris Review for several years before moving to New York mostrar mais City to work for Esquire magazine. She was the editor and publisher of Grand Street, a quarterly literary journal, from around 1990 to 2004. She wrote several books during her lifetime including American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy, Edie: An American Biography, and West of Eden: An American Place. She died in a fall from her 15th floor apartment on April 30, 2017 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Kennedys: Stories of Life and Death from an American Family (2001) — Contribuinte — 14 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
Stein, Jean Babette
Data de nascimento
1934-02-09
Data de falecimento
2017-04-30
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Local de falecimento
Manhattan, New York, USA
Causa da morte
suicide
Locais de residência
California, USA
Paris, France
New York City, New York, USA
Educação
Hewett School
Wellesley College
University of Paris-Sorbonne
Ocupação
magazine editor
biographer
Relacionamentos
Vanden Heuvel, William (husband|divorced)
Vanden Heuvel, Katrina (daughter)
Wiesel, Torsten N. (ex-spouse)
Organizações
The Paris Review
Grand Street
Pequena biografia
Jean Stein was born in Chicago but grew up in Beverly Hills. She was excellent at interviewing people, which helped her produce her books of oral history. She also worked as a magazine editor, starting out at the Paris Review and later publishing Grand Street.

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I loved the "oral history" compilation style of the book, and really enjoyed the different voices of those people telling the story.

I first read this book when I was still in high school, and it was a real eye opener for me to learn that a ruling class WASP family could be just as dysfunctional and messed up as the backwoods white trash families I was more familiar with. Fascinating, but still repulsive in a nicer, cleaner, more educated way.

It is just as much a book about an era as it is a book about a person. To me the early sixties in New York is just legendarily glamorous, if I had method of time travel, I would love to go back and see what it was like back then. I have a sort of love/hate view of the sixties.....love for the New York era, where people wore couture clothes and had fabulous hair and make-up; total disgust and disinterest for the California era of Haight-Ashbury hippies who were the worlds most unattractive looking (and smelling) people listening to music that sucked.

I'm not going to judge Edie, but I do find it very interesting that she has influenced or affected so many people.....when all she ever did was look good in the right place at the right time.
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Equestrienne | outras 9 resenhas | Jan 5, 2021 |
This was a very interesting look at Hollywood, told by the people who were there to see it all happen (actors, actresses, authors, producers, etc.). I've always been fascinated by Old Hollywood and the history of LA. and this book is a great addition to my growing collection of books on the subject.
 
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kaylaraeintheway | outras 5 resenhas | May 31, 2018 |
Interesting oral histories of infamous Los Angeles scandals. Hadn't realized the connection between Dennis Hopper and Jennifer Jones O'Selznick. Kind of unredeemable and depressing, all of the hubris, vanity, and excess.
 
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DFratini | outras 5 resenhas | Apr 23, 2018 |
I have no idea why I borrowed this book, other than being drawn to biographies of unusual people - all I knew about Edie Sedgwick was that she was briefly Andy Warhol's muse and that Sienna Miller played her in a biopic. After reading this biography, by the far more interesting Jean Stein who died last year, I'm not sure I know much more! Edie was from a deeply dysfunctional family, like the Kennedys impersonating the Mitfords while on acid, she became an 'It' girl for a couple of years in the 60s after working with Warhol in his Factory studio, got hooked on drugs, fucked her life up, got married, and died at 28 (just missing the 27 Club, but then she was no Janis Joplin). That's it. If not for her photogenic face, I'm not sure anyone would know who she was.

The biography is told in sections, taken from interviews by the people who knew her, which takes a while to get used to. In some ways, this gives a fuller picture of the type of life Edie lived, but doesn't tell the reader anything about the subject herself. There are a couple of direct quotes from 'Ciao Manhattan', the film Edie starred in, but mostly she remains the property and the product of other people's memories.
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AdonisGuilfoyle | outras 9 resenhas | Feb 25, 2018 |

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20
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Membros
1,081
Popularidade
#23,778
Avaliação
3.8
Resenhas
16
ISBNs
52
Idiomas
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