Jean Stein (1934-2017) was an American author, oral historian, editor, and philanthropist. She worked as an editor at
The Paris Review, under George Plimpton, and co-edited the literary and visual arts magazine
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Jean Stein (1934-2017) was an American author, oral historian, editor, and philanthropist. She worked as an editor at
The Paris Review, under George Plimpton, and co-edited the literary and visual arts magazine
Grand Street with Walter Hopps. She was married to William vanden Heuvel and Torsten Wiesel. The Jean Stein papers (1916-2016) document Stein's career and life. The works most extensively represented are Stein's oral history biography of the American actress and Andy Warhol muse, Edie Sedgwick,
Edie: An American Biography, (1982); and the oral history
West of Eden: An American Place, which focused on five families and individuals Stein considered essential to the history of Los Angeles. Personal files, which include letters Stein received from novelist William Faulkner, document Stein's childhood of wealth and privilege as a the daughter of talent agent and MCA founder, Jules Stein; and her adult life as a member of New York's intellectual elite.
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