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Jean Stein has worked as an editor for a number of magazines, including The Paris Review and Esquire. She is co-author, with George Plimpton, of American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy and in she became the editor of the literary journal Grand Street, until it ended in It was described by The New York Times as 'one of the most revered literary magazines of the postwar era'.

George Plimpton was an author, an actor and a literary patron. In he co-founded The Paris Review and his books, including Out of My League, Paper Lion, Mad Ducks and Bears, One More July, Shadow Box, The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair, Truman Capote and The Bogey Man. He died in September

Jean Babette Stein was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 9, She attended Wellesley College and the Sorbonne, but did not graduate. While in France in , she interviewed William Faulkner for The Paris Review. She worked for The Paris Review for several years before moving to New York City to work for Esquire magazine. She was the editor and publisher of Grand Street, a quarterly literary journal, from around to She wrote several books during her lifetime including American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy, Edie: An American Biography, and West of Eden: An American Place. She died in a fall from her 15th floor apartment on April 30, at the age of George Ames Plimpton was born March 18, He was educated first at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and then spent four years at Harvard majoring in English and editing the Harvard Lampoon, followed by two at King's College, Cambridge. Before he left for Cambridge, he served as a tank driver in Italy for the U.S. Army from through After graduation, at about 27 years of age, Plimpton went with his friends to Paris. There they founded the Paris Review in and published poetry and short story