Early Life
Stillman was born John Whitney Stillman on January 25, 1952, in Washington, D.C., the son of Margaret Drinker (née Riley), from Philadelphia, and a Democratic politician, John Sterling Stillman, an assistant secretary of commerce under President John F. Kennedy, from Washington, D.C. He grew up in the downstate New York town of Cornwall. His godfather is academic E. Digby Baltzell. He attended Harvard University, where he was a member of the Fly Club and wrote for The Harvard Crimson.
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