Joel Stein
Writer
Los Angeles, United States
Joel Stein was not easy to work with on this bio.
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The only verifiable facts he provided were that he wrote a column for Time for 20 years, along with 22 cover stories; was a columnist for Entertainment Weekly and the L.A. Times; is the author of the books Man Made and In Defense of Elitism, and posts a weekly Substack called The End of My Career. There is no basis for his claim that his writing has “saved millions of lives and caused many women to leave their husbands because of his overwhelming sexiness."
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