Sol Stein

Sol Stein ( born October 13, 1926 in Chicago) is an American writer, journalist and lecturer.

Biographical

Sol Stein was born in 1926, the son of Louis and Zelda stone in Chicago. 1930 the family moved to New York. Here Stein visited the DeWitt Clinton High School. In 1941 he wrote his first novel, Magic Maestro Please, and shortly thereafter Patriotic Magic. In 1942 he began his studies at the City College of New York, which he had to interrupt from 1944 to 1945 because of his military service in 1946 and resumed in 1948 with the master graduated diploma. Stone worked during this time as a lecturer in social sciences. From 1951 to 1953 he worked for the radio station Voice of America. 1953 Stone Director of the American Committee of Cultural Freedom, an organization of 300 leading American intellectuals who fought during the McCarthy era for the freedom of man.

Stone was one of the founding members of the Play Write Group, a group of theater writers and playwrights, among them Tennessee Williams, who had organized the Actors Studio in New York. Sol Stein worked as an editor for various publishers and published the works of contemporary authors such as George Orwell, Simone Weil, Arthur Koestler and others. In 1962 he founded together with his wife Patricia Day the publisher Stein & Day. Throughout his career, Stein specializing in the training of young authors and wrote books and training programs for creative writing.

Works

• On Writing, Zweitausendeins, ISBN 3861502267
• Rearing and care of a novel, Two Thousand One, ISBN 3861503646
• To life and limb, ISBN 3442097916
• Out of the blue, ISBN 3426006723
• A room for living, ISBN 3426005212
• Door to door, ISBN 3426007959
• A happy family
• With the gifts of a woman
• The young wizard, ISBN 3426003880