Background
Lorin Stein was born and raised in Washington, District of Columbia, where he attended the Sidwell Friends School.
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He graduated from Yale College in 1995.
Career
He is the editor in chief of The Paris Review. After brief tenures as a contributing editor at Might and Publishers Weekly, Stein was hired by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1998 as an editorial assistant. He was eventually promoted to senior editors
In 2008, FSG published his translation of Grégoire Bouillier"s memoir The Mystery Guest.
Stein succeeded Philip Gourevitch as the third editor of The Paris Review in April 2010.
Achievements
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Books edited by Stein have received the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Believer Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His reviews of fiction and poetry and his translations from French have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Harper"s, The London Review of Books, The New Republic, n+1, and the Salon Guide to Contemporary Fiction. His translation of Edouard Levé"s Autoportrait was nominated for the Best Translated Book Award (2013). Under Stein"s editorship, The Paris Review has won two National Magazine Awards—the first in the category of Essays and Criticism (John Jeremiah Sullivan, "Mister Lytle: An Essay," 2011), and the second for General Excellence (2013).
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United States
Awards
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Best Translated Book Award; Los Angeles Times Book Prize; National Book Award; National Book Critics Circle Award
Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes.; The Best Translated Book Award is an American literary award that recognizes the previous year's best original translation into English, one book of poetry and one of fiction.Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes.; The Best Translated Book Award is an American literary award that recognizes the previous year's best original translation into English, one book of poetry and one of fiction.