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Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter. His works include the novels A Kiss Before Dying (1953), Rosemary's Baby (1967), The Stepford Wives (1972), This Perfect Day (1970), The Boys from Brazil (1976), and Sliver (1991).
Ira Levin has 70 books on Goodreads with 536751 ratings. Ira Levin’s most popular book is Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1).
Nov 12, 2007 · Ira Levin. Born. in The Bronx, New York City, New York, The United States. August 27, 1929. Died. November 12, 2007. Genre. Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction. edit data. Levin graduated from the Horace Mann School and New York University, where he majored in philosophy and English.
Nov 14, 2007 · Ira Levin, a mild-mannered playwright and novelist who liked nothing better than to give people the creeps — and who did so repeatedly, with best-selling novels like “Rosemary’s Baby,”...
The Stepford Wives is a 1972 satirical "feminist horror" [1] novel by Ira Levin. The story concerns Joanna Eberhart, a talented photographer, wife, and young mother who suspects that something in the town of Stepford is changing the wives from free-thinking, intelligent women into compliant wives dedicated solely to homemaking.
Nov 14, 2007 · Ira Levin, who gave the devil his due in “Rosemary’s Baby,” created an archetype in “The Stepford Wives” and brought a notorious Nazi to fiction in “The Boys From Brazil,” has died.
Author, playwright and composer Ira Levin decided on a career of a writer at the age of 15. Educated at the elite Horace Mann school, he went on to two years at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, before transferring to New York University, where he majored in philosophy and English.
