Jean Stein, 1934–2017

Photo: Brigitte LaCombe

We were heartbroken to learn that Jean Stein, the writer and editor who chronicled the venal underside of celebrity, has died at eighty-three. Stein led a storied life. When she was still. By the time she was in her early twenties, she’d earned a spot on ’s masthead as an editor; not long after, she worked with Clay Felker, of . With George Plimpton, she edited , an oral history of Edie Sedgwick; an excerpt appeared in the ’s issue. The pair also edited