Juliet Lapidos
{{short description|American writer and editor}}
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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.{{cite web|last1=Lapidos|first1=Juliet|title=Jeff & Juliet: A new kind of friendship|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/life/strictly_platonic/2010/09/jeff_juliet.html|website=Slate|publisher=The Slate Group|access-date=11 May 2017|date=27 September 2010}} She is Jewish.{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/julietlapidos/status/358976518707363840|access-date=2022-12-05|website=Twitter|language=vi}} Her parents immigrated to the United States and spoke French at home. {{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/malleability-american-identity/594508/|title=The Day I Learned I Was American|last=Lapidos|first=Juliet|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-27}}
Lapidos graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship,{{cite news|last1=Sadeghi|first1=Yassmin|title=Yalies net national fellowships for more study|url=http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2005/03/31/yalies-net-national-fellowships-for-more-study/|access-date=21 May 2017|work=Yale Daily News|date=March 31, 2005|language=en}} before earning a master's degree in English from Cambridge University.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/about/lat-juliet-lapidos-oped-and-sunday-opinion-editor-story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417111603/http://www.latimes.com/about/lat-juliet-lapidos-oped-and-sunday-opinion-editor-story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-04-17|title=Juliet Lapidos — Op-Ed and Sunday Opinion Editor|website=Los Angeles Times}}
Career
Lapidos began her career as a culture editor at Slate,{{cite news|url=https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2011/09/another_laid-off_slate_staffer.html|title=Another Laid-Off Slate Staffer Got a Good Job Very Quickly|last=Malone|first=Noreen|date=September 21, 2011|work=Daily Intelligencer|access-date=2017-05-21|language=en}} writing about friendship between men and women,{{cite news|url=http://jezebel.com/5648986/platonic-female-friendships-can-make-for-a-better-man|title=Platonic Female Friendships Can Make For A Better Man|last=North|first=Anna|work=Jezebel|access-date=2017-05-21|language=en-US}} Woody Allen,{{cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_completist/2011/03/ive_seen_every_woody_allen_movie.html|title=I've Seen Every Woody Allen Movie|last=Lapidos|first=Juliet|date=March 31, 2011|work=Slate|access-date=May 30, 2017}} and the "Slate pitches" meme,{{cite news|url=http://www.adweek.com/digital/slate-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary/|title=Slate Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary|last=Grinapol|first=Corinne|date=September 12, 2016|work=AdWeek|access-date=2017-05-21|language=en-US}} among other topics. In 2011, she joined the New York Times as an opinion section staff editor.{{cite news|last1=Mullin|first1=Benjamin|title=Career Beat: Juliet Lapidos named op-ed page editor at the Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.poynter.org/2015/career-beat-juliet-lapidos-named-op-ed-page-editor-at-the-los-angeles-times/323277/|access-date=21 May 2017|work=Poynter|date=February 26, 2015}} In 2015, she joined the Los Angeles Times as the editor of the op-ed page and the Sunday opinion section.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/about/lat-juliet-lapidos-oped-and-sunday-opinion-editor-story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417111603/http://www.latimes.com/about/lat-juliet-lapidos-oped-and-sunday-opinion-editor-story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-04-17 |title=Juliet Lapidos - Op-Ed and Sunday Opinion Editor |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=2015-04-16 |access-date=2017-03-28}} In 2018 she left the Los Angeles Times to join the Atlantic as a senior editor.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/introducing-the-atlantics-ideas-section/569221/|title=Introducing The Atlantic's Ideas Section|last=Goldberg|first=Jeffrey|date=2018-09-04|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-20}}
Lapidos has written for The Atlantic,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/author/juliet-lapidos/|title=Juliet Lapidos|last=Lapidos|first=Juliet|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-27}} the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, and The Forward.{{cite web|last=Roderick |first=Kevin |url=http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2015/02/la_times_taps_nyt_for_new.php |title=LA Times taps NYT for new op-ed editor |publisher=LA Observed |date=2015-02-25 |access-date=2017-03-28}}{{cite web|url=http://forward.com/author/juliet-lapidos/ |title=Juliet Lapidos – The Forward |website=Forward.com |access-date=2017-03-28}}
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.{{Cite book|title=Talent|last=Lapidos|first=Juliet|publisher=Little, Brown|year=2019}}
Works
- Talent, New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. {{ISBN|9780316480550}}, {{OCLC|1081305872}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/books/blog/21044673/talent-by-juliet-lapidos-reviewed|title=The Perils of a Literary Pursuit Are Harrowing in Juliet Lapidos' Talent|website=Washington City Paper|date=24 January 2019|language=en|access-date=2019-01-27}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/review-talent-by-juliet-lapidos/504504932/|title=Review: 'Talent,' by Juliet Lapidos|website=Star Tribune|access-date=2019-01-27}}
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