Lorin Stein

Lorin Stein, the editor of The Paris Review, the prestigious magazine that for more than 60 years has acted as an international literary tastemaker, resigned on Wednesday December 6 2017, amid an internal investigation into his behavior toward female employees and writers. Despite The Paris Review’s relatively small circulation, it has an outsized influence in publishing. Founded in Paris in 1953 by George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Harold L. Humes, the publication has catapulted the careers of writers like Rick Moody, Jack Kerouac, Philip Roth and Adrienne Rich. Mr. Stein also resigned on Wednesday from his position at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where he was an editor at large. Mr. Stein became The Paris Review’s editor in 2010, following Philip Gourevitch, and George Plimpton, who had led the magazine until his death in 2003.