Juliet Lapidos

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Juliet Lapidos
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NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University,
Cambridge University
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 .

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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]

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