Juliet Lapidos is an American writer and editor. Currently the Ideas editor at the ''

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'', she was previously the op-ed and Sunday opinion editor at the ''

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'' and a staff editor at the ''

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''.

Early life

Lapidos grew up in

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. She is Jewish. Her parents immigrated to the United States and spoke French at home. Lapidos graduated summa cum laude from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

and won a

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, before earning a master's degree in English from

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Career

Lapidos began her career as a culture editor at '' Slate'', writing about friendship between men and women,

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, and the " Slate pitches" meme, among other topics. In 2011, she joined the ''

'' as an opinion section staff editor. In 2015, she joined the ''

'' as the editor of the op-ed page and the Sunday opinion section. In 2018 she left the ''Los Angeles Times'' to join the ''Atlantic'' as a senior editor. Lapidos has written for ''

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'', the '' New York Times Book Review'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. 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.

Works

*''Talent'', New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019. ,

References

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