[1][2] Her parents immigrated to the United States and spoke French at home.

[3] Lapidos graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship,[4] before earning a master's degree in English from Cambridge University.

[10] In 2015, she joined the Los Angeles Times as the editor of the op-ed page and the Sunday opinion section.

[11] In 2018 she left the Los Angeles Times to join the Atlantic as a senior editor.

[12] Lapidos has written for The Atlantic,[13] the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, and The Forward.