Ira Levin
Sign in to saveAmerican novelist, playwright (1929–2007)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 27 Aug 1929
- Died
- 1 Nov 2007
- Works
- 32
Top works
- Deathtrap
- The Boys from Brazil
- The Stepford Wives
- A Kiss Before Dying
- No Time for Sergeants
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Film & TV
Writing · New York City, New York, USA
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). Levin also wrote the play Deathtrap (1978). Many of his novels and plays have been adapted into films. He…
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 195
- Total plays
- 1,379
Tags
horrorspoken wordAudiobook
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features
· 2010 · cited 26,867x
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,129x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,371x
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Key facts
- Born
- Ira Marvin Levin , ( 1929-08-27 ) August 27, 1929, New York City , U.S.
- Died
- November 12, 2007 (2007-11-12) (aged 78), New York City, U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist playwright songwriter
- Spouse
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Key dates
- Born
- 27 August 1928
- Died
- 12 November 2007
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ira
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- The Bronx
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- lyricist
- Educated at
- Drake University
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
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). Levin also wrote the play Deathtrap (1978). Many of his novels and plays have been adapted into films. He received the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award and several Edgar Awards. In 1996 he was given the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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1929 births2007 deaths20th-century American dramatists and playwrights20th-century American Jews20th-century American male writers20th-century American novelists21st-century American JewsAmerican AtheistsAmerican horror writersAmerican male dramatists and playwrightsAmerican male novelistsAmerican mystery writers