What is Jean Stein?
{{Infobox person | name = Jean Stein | birth_name = Jean Babette Stein | birth_date = {{birth date|1934|2|9}} | birth_place = [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|04|30|1934|2|9}} | death_place = [[New York City]], New York, U.S. | death_cause = [[Suicide]] by [[Jumping]] | occupation = Author, editor | spouse = {{ubl|[[William vanden Heuvel]]|{{marriage|[[Torsten Wiesel]]|1995|2007|end=divorced}}}} | children = {{ubl|[[Katrina vanden Heuvel]]|Wendy vanden Heuvel}} | parents = {{ubl|[[Jules C. Stein]]|Doris Jones}} }} '''Jean Babette Stein''' (February 9, 1934 &ndash; April 30, 2017) was an American author and editor of Jewish descent. She was born in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]]. She was known for her works ''[[West of Eden]]'' and ''[[Edie: American Girl]]''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6XCIqw48uSwC&pg=PP13&dq=Jean+Stein+george+Editor+Edie&sig=ACfU3U0LkKRN3-Th98DUOAjo6WjNNtKEZQ ''Edie: American Girl'' review]</ref> She also wrote biographies of [[United States Attorney General]] [[Robert F. Kennedy]]. In the late 1950s, she was an editor at ''[[The Paris Review]]''. From 1990 to 2004, she was editor of the literary/visual arts magazine ''Grand Street''. Stein was married to businessman [[William vanden Heuvel]] from 1958 until they divorced in the 1970s. to [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]]-winner [[Torsten Wiesel]] from 1995 until they divorced in 2007. Stein committed suicide by jumping off from her apartment building in [[New York City]] on April 30, 2017, aged 83.<ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/jean-stein-ues-woman-leapt-death-led-literary-life-article-1.3123409 Jean Stein, Upper East Side woman who leapt to death, was best-selling author, innovator in art of oral history], ''New York Daily News'', May 1, 2017.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stein, Jean}} [[Category:1934 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:American editors]] [[Category:American historians]] [[Category:A