Jean Stein

Jean Stein
Born	c. 1934 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Author, editor
Spouse(s)	William vanden Heuvel Torsten Wiesel
Children	Katrina vanden Heuvel Wendy vanden Heuvel
Parent(s)	Jules Stein Doris Jones

Jean Stein (born c. 1934, Los Angeles, California) is an American author and editor.

Jean Stein was born to a Jewish family circa 1934 in Los Angeles, California. Her father was Jules C. Stein (1896–1981), founder of the Music Corporation of America (MCA) and the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA. Her mother, Doris J. Stein (1902–1984), established the Doris Jones Stein Foundation. Jean Stein's sister, Susan Shiva, died of breast cancer (1983), as did Doris Stein.

Stein was educated at the Katharine Branson School in Ross, California, then at Brillantmont International School in Lausanne, Switzerland, after which she graduated from Miss Hewitt's Classes in New York City. Thereafter, she spent two years at Wellesley College and then attended classes at the University of Paris (formerly known as the Sorbonne). While in Paris she interviewed William Faulkner, with whom she had an affair, and, according to the historian Joel Williamson, offered the interview to the The Paris Review in exchange for being made an editor there.

She returned to New York and worked in 1955 as assistant to director Elia Kazan on the original production of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Stein is the author of three books and a pioneer of the narrative form of oral history. Her most recent work is a cultural and political history of Los Angeles, West of Eden published by Random House in February 2016. In 1970, Stein authored, with George Plimpton as editor, a biography of Robert F. Kennedy, entitled American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy.

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