Biography

Elliott Stein (December 5, 1928 – November 7, 2012) was an American journalist and historian.In the 1950s he managed a literary review in Paris: "Janus." He also wrote for the review "Bizarre" with Kenneth Anger. He worked with Anger on Anger's book Hollywood Babylon.

In the years 1960–1970 he was a film critic in Paris for the Financial Times and for Village Voice.Back in New York in the 1970s, Stein wrote for the Village Voice and publishers like "Criterion". He wrote regularly for Film Comment and Sight and Sound. He is referred to in the diaries and memoirs of Ned Rorem, Susan Sontag, John Ashbery and Richard Olney. He wrote Secrets of Sex (1970) and New York City Inferno (1978) and made a video-interview with himself in 2005, as well as acting in some movies including Les Coeurs Verts (1965) by Édouard Luntz, and Secrets of Sex (1970) playing the role of the Mummy.