![]() Last year, Stein published West of Eden: An American Place, an oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles structured around multiple families, including the Dohenys, the Warners and her own. Their work was praised by Norman Mailer as “the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for.” ![]() In 1982, they reteamed for Edie: An American Biography (later retitled American Girl), about the heiress and Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick, who died of a drug overdose in 1971 at age 28. The pair used the conceit of being on board Kennedy’s funeral train to structure the stories in the interviews. In 1970, Stein and George Plimpton produced the oral history American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy (Stein conducted the interviews and Plimpton edited the volume). ![]() Stein then returned to New York and worked as Kazan’s assistant on the original 1955 stage production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. While there, she had an affair with William Faulkner and then landed a job as an editor at the Paris Review. After two years at Wellesley College, she enrolled at the University of Paris. Stein was born in Los Angeles in 1934 to Music Corporation of America founder Jules Stein and his wife Doris. In 1988, Anderson Cooper’s brother Carter died by suicide by jumping off the balcony of his mother Gloria Vanderbilt’s apartment in the same building. ![]() George Watson, Longtime ABC News Washington Bureau Chief, Dies at 86 ![]()
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