Edie: American Girl

About George PlimptonJean Stein

Jean Steins father Jules founded MCA and she grew up in the golden years of Hollywood. At Jeans coming-out party Judy Garland sang Over the Rainbow; later she had an affair with William Faulkner became an editor at The Paris Review and was Elia Kazans assistant on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Immersed in the demi-monde of New York she was close to Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground and to Warhols muse Edie Sedgewick about whom Lou Reed wrote Femme Fatale and Jean Stein wrote Edie (1982). That book became an international best-seller of which Norman Mailer wrote: This is the book of the Sixties that we have been waiting for. George Plimpton (1927-2003) was the bestselling author and editor of nearly thirty books as well as the cofounder publisher and editor of the Paris Review. He wrote regularly for such magazines as Sports Illustrated and Esquire and he appeared numerous times in films and on television. Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen her first novel was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands her second and third novels were New York Times bestsell­ers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella McGlue. She lives in Southern California. Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen her first novel was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands her second and third novels were New York Times bestsell­ers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella McGlue. She lives in Southern California.