Jess Stearn (April 26, 1914 – March 27, 2002) was an American journalist and author of more than thirty books, nine of which were bestsellers.
His early work focused on outsiders and marginalized individuals such as prostitutes, drug addicts, and gay men (The Sixth Man).
[7] Stearn might have been one of the forerunners of bringing Eastern thought into the Western world through his best-selling 1965 book, Yoga, Youth and Reincarnation.
A reference to his latest book appeared in the Voice of Broadway column written by Francis' television colleague Dorothy Kilgallen.
Either Kilgallen or her editor at the New York Journal American placed a plug for Yoga, Youth and Reincarnation in that paper's September 15, 1965, edition immediately after an item about an upcoming Johnnie Ray concert in Las Vegas.