Juliet Lapidos

Summary

Juliet Lapidos is an American writer and editor. Currently the Ideas editor at the Atlantic, she was previously the op-ed and Sunday opinion editor at the Los Angeles Times and a staff editor at the New York Times.

Juliet Lapidos
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University,
Cambridge University
Occupation(s)Writer, editor

Early life edit

Lapidos grew up in New York City.[1] She is Jewish.[1][2] Her parents immigrated to the United States and spoke French at home. [3]

Lapidos graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship,[4] before earning a master's degree in English from Cambridge University.[5]

Career edit

Lapidos began her career as a culture editor at Slate,[6] writing about friendship between men and women,[7] Woody Allen,[8] and the "Slate pitches" meme,[9] among other topics. In 2011, she joined the New York Times as an opinion section staff editor.[10] In 2015, she joined the Los Angeles Times as the editor of the op-ed page and the Sunday opinion section.[11] In 2018 she left the Los Angeles Times to join the Atlantic as a senior editor.[12]

Lapidos has written for The Atlantic,[13] the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, and The Forward.[14][15]

She is the author of the novel Talent, published by Little, Brown in the United States, Borough Press in the United Kingdom, and Bompiani in Italy.[16]

Works edit

  • Talent, New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. ISBN 9780316480550, OCLC 1081305872[17][18]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Lapidos, Juliet (27 September 2010). "Jeff & Juliet: A new kind of friendship". Slate. The Slate Group. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
  2. ^ Twitter (in Vietnamese) https://twitter.com/julietlapidos/status/358976518707363840. Retrieved 2022-12-05. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ Lapidos, Juliet. "The Day I Learned I Was American". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  4. ^ Sadeghi, Yassmin (March 31, 2005). "Yalies net national fellowships for more study". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Juliet Lapidos — Op-Ed and Sunday Opinion Editor". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2015-04-17.
  6. ^ Malone, Noreen (September 21, 2011). "Another Laid-Off Slate Staffer Got a Good Job Very Quickly". Daily Intelligencer. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
  7. ^ North, Anna. "Platonic Female Friendships Can Make For A Better Man". Jezebel. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
  8. ^ Lapidos, Juliet (March 31, 2011). "I've Seen Every Woody Allen Movie". Slate. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
  9. ^ Grinapol, Corinne (September 12, 2016). "Slate Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary". AdWeek. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
  10. ^ Mullin, Benjamin (February 26, 2015). "Career Beat: Juliet Lapidos named op-ed page editor at the Los Angeles Times". Poynter. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  11. ^ "Juliet Lapidos - Op-Ed and Sunday Opinion Editor". Los Angeles Times. 2015-04-16. Archived from the original on 2015-04-17. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
  12. ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (2018-09-04). "Introducing The Atlantic's Ideas Section". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  13. ^ Lapidos, Juliet. "Juliet Lapidos". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  14. ^ Roderick, Kevin (2015-02-25). "LA Times taps NYT for new op-ed editor". LA Observed. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
  15. ^ "Juliet Lapidos – The Forward". Forward.com. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
  16. ^ Lapidos, Juliet (2019). Talent. Little, Brown.
  17. ^ "The Perils of a Literary Pursuit Are Harrowing in Juliet Lapidos' Talent". Washington City Paper. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  18. ^ "Review: 'Talent,' by Juliet Lapidos". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2019-01-27.