Lorin Stein

Lorin Hollister Stein (born April 22, 1973) is an American critic, editor, and translator. He was the editor in chief of The Paris Review but resigned in 2017 following several anonymous accusations of sexual impropriety. Under Stein's editorship, The Paris Review won two National Magazine Awards—the first in the category of Essays and Criticism, and the second for General Excellence (2013). who worked at the Paris Review from 2011 to 2014. His sister is the literary agent Anna Stein.

Career 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 editor. In 2008, FSG published his translation of Grégoire Bouillier's memoir The Mystery Guest.

Stein succeeded Philip Gourevitch as the fourth editor of The Paris Review in April 2010. and Who Killed My Father (2019).

Resignation

In October 2017 the Paris Review board started an internal investigation which heard complaints from 'at least two female writers' alleging 'negative encounters' with Stein.

In March 2018, an article in Harper's Magazine argued that Stein had been a target of false rumors and that his case was an example of "implausibility and rationalization" in the #MeToo movement.

Awards and honors 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.

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).