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Ira Levin

Ira Levin was born in 1929 in New York City and is a graduate of New York University. He wrote television plays and short stories and, when he was twenty-two, A Kiss Before Dying. After two years of military service he turned to playwriting; No Time for Sergeants, adapted from Mac Hyman's novel was his most successful stage work, but his favorite is a musical called Drat! The Cat! for which he wrote the book and lyrics. Its early closing sent him back to novel writing, and the outcome was the diabolical chiller Rosemary's Baby. He has since written another play, Dr. Cook's Garden, filmed by Paramount Pictures in 1971, and he is nearing completon of another novel. He lives in Manhattan, is divorced, and has three sons.

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American novelist, playwright (1929–2007)

Born 27 Aug 1929
Died 1 Nov 2007

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  • Cover of: Rosemary's Baby
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  • Cover of: The Stepford Wives
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  • Cover of: A Kiss Before Dying
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  • Cover of: The Boys from Brazil
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  • Cover of: Sliver: a novel
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  • Cover of: This perfect day
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  • Cover of: Son of Rosemary: The Sequel to Rosemary's Baby
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  • Cover of: Veronica's room: a melodrama.
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    First published in 1974 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: Critic's choice: a comedy.
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    First published in 1961 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Deathtrap: a thriller in two acts
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    First published in 1979 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: The boys from Brazil

    First published in 1995 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Sliver

    First published in 2011 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: No time for sergeants.
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    First published in 1956 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: A Treasury of modern mysteries: volume 2
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    Cover of edition treasuryofmodern00gard Cover of edition treasuryofmodern0002unse First published in 1973 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Dr. Cook's Garden

    First published in 1968 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: A Kiss before Dying.

    First published in 2000 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Break a leg: a comedy in two acts
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    First published in 1981 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Đêm v~inh biêt

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    First published in 1962 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The Stepford Wives
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    First published in 1985 — 1 edition
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American novelist, playwright (1929–2007)

Born 27 Aug 1929
Died 1 Nov 2007

Subjects

Fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, horror, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Large type books, American drama (dramatic works by one author), Apartment houses, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, suspense, Modern fiction, American drama, American literature, Antichrist, Antisemitism, Children's fiction, Clones and cloning, Drama, Female friendship, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, science fiction, general, Good and evil, Gothic-Revival, Holocaust, Horror tales, Luther

Places

New York City, Bramford, Brazil, Congonhas Airport, Connecticut, Fairfield County, Hollywood, San Paolo, Stepford, U.S.A., Upper West Side (New York, N.Y.), Vienna, Amsterdam Avenue, Central Park, Dakota Apartments, Earth, Hell, Strawberry Fields

People

Edward Hutchins, Guy Woodhouse, Josef Mengele (1911-1979), Minnie Castevet, Roman Castevet, Rosemary Woodhouse, Satan, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Bobbie, Joanna Eberhart, Walter Eberhart, Yakov Liebermann, Andy Woodhouse, John Lennon, Stanley Shand, Yoko Ono

Time

1960s, 1974, 1950's, 1965, 1970's, 1973, 1999

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  • I. LEVIN

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July 8, 2021 Edited by Lisa merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
May 8, 2020 Edited by Lisa merge authors
November 1, 2019 Edited by dcapillae Expanded birth and death date
March 2, 2010 Edited by 186.84.11.157 Edited without comment.