A Writer Goes Out the Window

Here's a bit of black humor, courtesy of a doorman.

Right, Pedro. She didn't go out much, but when she did, people sure noticed.

Actually, typical of writers and fame, nobody noticed at first. The reports first stated that "a woman" had jumped, and traumatized some people because one of her legs got severed on the balcony on which she landed.

Later, as you see from the above, the online newspapers mentioned that a somebody who knew Norman Mailer and Joan Didion had died.

Oh...turns out she knew John Waters, too. And up till about ten years ago, was a social butterfly seen at some very exclusive parties.

A few local websites had somebody in editorial noting that, coincidentally, this was the same building where Anderson Cooper's brother had jumped to his death years ago.

Ultimately, and slowly, the reports identified the woman as Jean Stein...THE Jean Stein, who had written "EDIE," with the help of another Upper East Sider, George Plimpton.

But as you see, at first she was just a "nice person who doesn't go out too much," but when she does...uses the window.

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