Juliet Lapidos


Juliet Lapidos is an American writer and editor. Currently a senior editor at the Atlantic, she was previously the op-ed and Sunday opinion editor at the Los Angeles Times and a staff editor at the New York 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. In 2018 she left the Los Angeles Times to join the Atlantic as a senior editor.
Lapidos has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, and The Forward.
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