Juliet Lapidos

Juliet Lapidos
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University (BA)
Hughes Hall, Cambridge (MPhil)
Occupation(s)Writer, editor

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.

Early life

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

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

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

References

  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.