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Ira Levin
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Screenwriter, Book Author, Play Author, Screen Story Born: August 27, 1929 in New York, NY Death: November 12, 2007 in New York, NY Biography:Regarded by critics as one of the most blithely entertaining postwar American novelists, Ira Levin enjoyed decades of not merely seeing his novels hit the market as best-sellers, but of watching Hollywood turn those tomes into satisfying cinematic outings, time and again. Many observers (such as Stephen King, in his 1982 Danse Macabre) singled out Levin for his deft command of Byzantine narrative structures, in which plot elements fit together as snugly as pieces in a jigsaw puzzle and resist attempts at structural alteration.
Levin was born in the Bronx, the son of a toy manufacturer, but he bucked his father's prompting to join the family business by developing and honing his own innate gift for fiction. Early on (in the mid-'40s), the blossoming 15-year-old writer won a second-place, 200-dollar prize in an NBC screenwriting competition, which reinforced his inclinations in that direction, to great... Full Biography
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