Juliet Lapidos Explained

Juliet Lapidos
Nationality:American
Occupation:Writer, editor
Alma Mater:Yale University (BA)
Hughes Hall, Cambridge (MPhil)

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.[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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lapidos. Juliet. Jeff & Juliet: A new kind of friendship. Slate. The Slate Group. 11 May 2017. 27 September 2010.
  2. Web site: https://twitter.com/julietlapidos/status/358976518707363840. 2022-12-05. Twitter. vi.
  3. Web site: The Day I Learned I Was American. Lapidos. Juliet. The Atlantic. en-US. 2019-01-27.
  4. News: Sadeghi. Yassmin. Yalies net national fellowships for more study. 21 May 2017. Yale Daily News. March 31, 2005. en.
  5. Web site: Juliet Lapidos — Op-Ed and Sunday Opinion Editor. https://web.archive.org/web/20150417111603/http://www.latimes.com/about/lat-juliet-lapidos-oped-and-sunday-opinion-editor-story.html. dead. 2015-04-17. Los Angeles Times.
  6. News: Another Laid-Off Slate Staffer Got a Good Job Very Quickly. Malone. Noreen. September 21, 2011. Daily Intelligencer. 2017-05-21. en.
  7. News: Platonic Female Friendships Can Make For A Better Man. North. Anna. Jezebel. 2017-05-21. en-US.
  8. News: I've Seen Every Woody Allen Movie. Lapidos. Juliet. March 31, 2011. Slate. May 30, 2017.
  9. News: Slate Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary. Grinapol. Corinne. September 12, 2016. AdWeek. 2017-05-21. en-US.
  10. News: Mullin. Benjamin. Career Beat: Juliet Lapidos named op-ed page editor at the Los Angeles Times. 21 May 2017. Poynter. February 26, 2015.
  11. News: Juliet Lapidos - Op-Ed and Sunday Opinion Editor . https://web.archive.org/web/20150417111603/http://www.latimes.com/about/lat-juliet-lapidos-oped-and-sunday-opinion-editor-story.html . dead . 2015-04-17 . . 2015-04-16 . 2017-03-28.
  12. Web site: Introducing The Atlantic's Ideas Section. Goldberg. Jeffrey. 2018-09-04. The Atlantic. en-US. 2018-12-20.
  13. Web site: Juliet Lapidos. Lapidos. Juliet. The Atlantic. en-US. 2019-01-27.
  14. Web site: Roderick . Kevin . LA Times taps NYT for new op-ed editor . LA Observed . 2015-02-25 . 2017-03-28.
  15. Web site: Juliet Lapidos – The Forward . Forward.com . 2017-03-28.
  16. Book: Lapidos, Juliet. Talent. Little, Brown. 2019.
  17. Web site: The Perils of a Literary Pursuit Are Harrowing in Juliet Lapidos' Talent. Washington City Paper. 24 January 2019. en. 2019-01-27.
  18. Web site: Review: 'Talent,' by Juliet Lapidos. Star Tribune. 2019-01-27.

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