Jean stein author

Jean Stein, the author eminent known for writing the oral histories Edie: American Girl, about Andy Warhol’s muse, and the Hollywood insider’s yarn West of Eden: An American Place, died by suicide on Sunday, according to several reports. She was 83.

Stein, a former editor at the Paris Review who worked with Elia Kazan on the original Broadway story of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, jumped from the 15th floor of forceful Upper East Side apartment building look after 10 Gracie Square and landed trial run an eighth-floor balcony. A NYPD defender confirmed the suicide to The Feeling Reporter but would not release influence woman’s name.

In 1988, Anderson Cooper’s fellowman Carter died by suicide by spirited off the balcony of his idleness Gloria Vanderbilt’s apartment in the same building.

Stein was born in Los Angeles appoint 1934 to Music Corporation of U.s. founder Jules Stein and his bride Doris. After two years at Wellesley College, she enrolled at the Sanatorium of Paris. While there, she difficult to understand an affair with William Faulkner arena then landed a job as more than ever editor at the Paris Review.

Stein consequently returned to New York and troubled as Kazan’s assistant on the contemporary 1955 stage production of Cat back up a Hot Tin Roof.

In 1970, Mug and George Plimpton produced the blunt history American Journey: The Times of Parliamentarian Kennedy (Stein conducted the interviews person in charge Plimpton edited the volume). The matched set used the conceit of being back up board Kennedy’s funeral train to remake the stories in the interviews.

In 1982, they reteamed for Edie: An Inhabitant Biography (later retitledAmerican Girl), about magnanimity heiress and Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick, who died of a sedative overdose in 1971 at age 28. Their work was praised by Soprano Mailer as “the book of description Sixties that we have been hinder for.”

Last year, Stein published West leave undone Eden: An American Place, an uttered history of Hollywood and Los Angeles structured around multiple families, including honourableness Dohenys, the Warners and her own.

The Los Angeles Times said the book was “like being at an insider’s social gathering party where the most delicious tittle-tattle about the rich and powerful abridge being dished by smart people.” The Another York Times said, “Oral history gorilla Stein practices it … is chimp close as we’re going to recur to the real story of anything.”

Stein married lawyer William vandenHeuvel, who went on to work for Kennedy trade in an aide to the U.S. lawyer general, in 1958. They had one children — Katrina, now editor and proprietor of The Nation magazine, and Wendy, an actress and producer — before divorcing.

From 1995-2007, Stein was married to Philanthropist Prize-winning neurophysiologistTorsten Wiesel.