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to launch the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Oral
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The $ 10,000 PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Oral
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magazine. The couple's second daughter, Wendy vanden Heuvel, is an actress and producer in New York. She was also on the board of the
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