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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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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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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1929
- Active to
- 2007
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 195
- Total plays
- 1,379
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features
· 2010 · cited 27,020x
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,169x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,412x
- 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 15,393x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
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Quotes
- “He touched me...Control myself and try to actAs if I remember my nameBut he touched me...he touched me...And suddenly nothing is the same!”
- “I feel guilty that Rosemary's Baby led to The Exorcist, The Omen [...] A whole generation has been exposed, has more belief in Satan. I don't believe in Satan. And I feel that the strong fundamentalism we have would not be as strong if there hadn't been so many of these books. Of course, [...] I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.”
- “Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.”
- “Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveller.”
- “Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster.”
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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
- Gabrielle Aronsohn, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1960 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1968 ) Phyllis Sugarman, ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1979 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1981 )
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.iralevin.org
- Image
- Portrait photograph of Ira Levin by Inge Morath, c. 1967.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1928-08-27
- date of death
- 2007-11-12
- Commons category
- Ira Levin
- name in native language
- Ira Levin
- start of work period
- 1949-00-00
- P12674
- Eduard Goldstücker
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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). 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.
Early life