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Whit Stillman (born John Whitney Stillman; January 25, 1952) is an American writer-director known for his sly depictions of the "urban haute bourgeoisie" (as a character in Metropolitan terms the film's upper-class WASP milieu). Born in Washington, D.C., Stillman was raised in the upstate New York town of Cornwall, the son of an impoverished debutante (Margaret Riley Stillman) from Philadelphia and a Democratic politician (John Sterling Stillman, an assistant secretary of commerce under President John F. Kennedy ) from Washington, D.C. His godfather is E. Digby Baltzell, who popularized... MORE

Whit Stillman (born John Whitney Stillman; January 25, 1952) is an American writer-director known for his sly depictions of the "urban haute bourgeoisie" (as a character in Metropolitan terms the film's upper-class WASP milieu). Born in Washington, D.C., Stillman was raised in the upstate New York town of Cornwall, the son of an impoverished debutante (Margaret Riley Stillman) from Philadelphia and a Democratic politician (John Sterling Stillman, an assistant secretary of commerce under President John F. Kennedy ) from Washington, D.C. His godfather is E. Digby Baltzell, who popularized the term WASP. He attended Harvard University where he was a member of the Fly Club and tapped by Michael Kinsley to take over the humor columns for The Harvard Crimson. After graduating from Harvard in 1973, Stillman began working as a journalist in New York City. He was introduced to some film producers from Madrid and persuaded them that he could sell their films to Spanish-language television in the U.S. He worked for the next few years in Barcelona and Madrid as a sales agent for directors Fernando Trueba and Fernando Colomo, and sometimes acted in their films, usually playing comic Americans, LESS