Lorin Stein is the founding editor of the literary quarterly "PEN America". He was the editor of "The Paris Review" from 1987 to 2014. He was born in Los Angeles in 1963, and grew up in New York City. He attended the University of Southern California, where he received two B.A.'s, one in English literature and one in film studies, and Columbia University's graduate program in history of ideas
He lives in New York City with his wife, Rebecca Mead, a staff writer at "The New Yorker", their daughter, Emmy, and their dog, Isaac Newton.
I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.Lorin Stein
If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can be more truthful about things like sex, commitment, and aging. It can be more truthful about the stuff that our parents lied to us (and themselves) about, and the stuff that everyone has to lie about. It can all be dealt with truthfully in fiction and poetry.Lorin Stein
