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- Birth nameSolomon Stein
- Sol Stein creator of WritePro, has edited the work of such major authors as James Baldwin, Jack Higgins, Dylan Thomas, and Elia Kazan. He taught creative writing at Columbia, Northwestern, and the University of California at Irvine, which presented him with the Distinguished Instructor Award. Stein was author of three books on writing and nine novels, including the million-copy seller The Magician.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpousesEdith (Tennenbaum) Shapiro in .(2000 - September 2019) (his death)Patricia Day(1962 - ?) (divorced, 3 children)Sondra Klein(1947 - ?) (divorced, 4 children)
- During the early 1950s, he worked at the Voice of America in New York and later became an official at the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, an organization secretly funded by the CIA. The committee, a loosely organized group of leading intellectuals, opposed ideological extremism from both the left and right.
- Fellow, Manhattan Institute.
- Author, publisher Stein and Day 1962-1989.
- His father was a jewelry designer, his mother an interpreter who eventually worked for the United Nations.
- Went to high school with James Baldwin at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York where they were staff members on the school literary journal.
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