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Joel Stein grew up in Edison, NJ, went to Stanford, and in 1997 became a staff writer for
TIME. In 1998, he began writing his sophomoric humor column that now appears in the magazine every week. His book,
Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity is not on any best seller lists. He’s also written fourteen cover stories for
TIME, and has contributed to
The New Yorker,
GQ,
Esquire,
Details,
Food & Wine,
Travel & Leisure,
Businessweek,
Wired,
Real Simple,
Sunset,
Playboy,
Elle, the
Los Angeles Times, and many more magazines, most of which have gone out of business. He has appeared as a talking head on any TV show that asks him, taught a class in humor writing at Princeton, and wrote a weekly column for the back page of
Entertainment Weekly and the opinion section of the
Los Angeles Times. This is the most he’s ever written in third person.