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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Etiquetado
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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Oral Histories (1)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 20
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 1,081
- Popularidade
- #23,778
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 16
- ISBNs
- 52
- Idiomas
- 3
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.… (mais)