Joel Stein

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.