Ira Levin

Levin, Ira.

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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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Sliver
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Semilla del Diablo
Representative edition published 2005
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Deathtrap
Representative edition published 2003
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General Seeger
Representative edition published 1998
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Son of Rosemary
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A Kiss Before Dying
Representative edition published 1991
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Cantorial
Representative edition published 1990
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Deadly Doings
Representative edition published 1989
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Three by Ira Levin (Rosemary's Baby / Stepford Wives / This Perfect Day)
Representative edition published 1985
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Break a leg
Representative edition published 1981
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Nightmares (Kiss Before Dying / Rosemary's Baby / Stepford Wives)
Representative edition published 1981
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Veronica's room
Representative edition published 1981
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Un bonheur insoutenable
Representative edition published 1978
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 3 1976
Representative edition published 1976
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The Boys from Brazil
Representative edition published 1976
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 1 - 1973
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The Stepford Wives
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This Perfect Day
Representative edition published 1970
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Dr. Cook's garden
Representative edition published 1968
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Critic's choice
Representative edition published 1961
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No Time for Sergeants
Representative edition published 1956
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Rosemary's Baby and Son of Rosemary
Representative edition published 2015
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Interlock
Representative edition published 1958
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