Jean Stein, the literary editor and author known for producing engrossing oral histories on topics as disparate as the tumultuous life of an Andy Warhol acolyte and the dastardly intrigues of early Hollywood, has died at 83. Her death Sunday was confirmed by a spokesperson for the Nation magazine in New York City, where Stein’s daughter, Katrina vanden Heuvel, serves as editor and publisher. It can’t help but become a multi-personality collage.”“When the ‘Edie’ book came out, I read the book even though I wasn’t overly interested in Edie Sedgwick,” he added. By the early ’60s, Stein had married attorney William vanden Heuvel, who became an assistant to then-Atty. The New Yorker called the book “serious, credible, and even beautiful.”She and vanden Heuvel had two daughters: Katrina vanden Heuvel and Wendy vanden Heuvel, a film and stage actress.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 01, 2017 21:56 UTC