Jess Stearn (1914-2002) was an American journalist and author known for his writings on the occult.
Stearn attended Syracuse University and worked as a reporter for The New York Daily News for seventeen years before becoming interested in Edward Cayce while researching him for a book. He eventually published two biographies of Cayce, The Sleeping Prophet: The Life and Work of Edgar Cayce (1968) and A Prophet in His Own Country: The Story of the Young Edgar Cayce (1974), as well as more than thirty other books on reincarnation, psychic phenomena, and the occult. He also collaborated with Taylor Caldwell on Caldwell's book I, Judas, and wrote a book on Caldwell's psychic lives.
From the guide to the Jess Stearn Papers, 1932-1970, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)
