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Biography
Juliet Lapidos is an American writer and editor. She is the op-ed and Sunday opinion editor at the Los Angeles Times.
Early life
As a teen, Lapidos lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She is Jewish.
Lapidos graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, next earning a master's degree in English from Cambridge University.
Career
Lapidos was a culture editor at Slate until 2011, writing about topics including friendship between men and women, Woody Allen, and the "Slate pitches" meme, among other topics. After layoffs at Slate, she joined the New York Times as an opinion section staff editor. In 2015, she joined the Los Angeles Times as the editor of the op-ed page and the Sunday opinion section.
Lapidos has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, and The Forward.