Joel Stein

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<B>Joel Stein</B> grew up in Edison, N.J., and went to Stanford. From 1997-2017 he was a staff writer for <I>Time</I> magazine, writing a regular humor column and more than a dozen cover stories; he was also the back page columnist for <I>Entertainment Weekly</I> and the opinion section of the <I>Los Angeles Times</I>. He has contributed to <I>Bloomberg Businessweek, GQ, Esquire,</I> the <I>New Yorker, Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure</I>, the <I>New York Times Book Review, Elle,</I> and <I>Men's Health</I>. <br><br> Stein was a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton and has appeared as a talking head on television shows such as <I>Real Time with Bill Maher, Late Night with Conan O'Brien,</I> and VH1's <I>I Love The '80s</I>. He's interviewed celebrities for HBO, Cinemax, and Comedy Central. In addition to writing on staff for two television shows, he created an animated show for VH1 (<I>Hey Joel</I>) and wrote six network pilots. His 2012 book, <I>Man Made: A Stupid Quest For Masculinity</I>, was a bestseller, and Fox hired him to adapt it as a film script. He has also written for the show <I>American Princess</I> produced by Jenji Kohan -- best known as the creator of Showtime comedy-drama series <I>Weeds</I> and the Netflix series <I>Orange is the New Black</I>.