Ira Levin
Levin graduated from the Horace Mann School and New York University, where he majored in philosophy and English. After college, he wrote training films and scripts for television. Levin's first produced play was No Time for Sergeants (adapted from Mac Hyman's novel), a comedy about a hillbilly drafted into the United States Air Force that launched the career of Andy Griffith. The play was turned into a movie in 1958, and co-starred Don Knotts, Griffith's long-time co-star and friend. No Time for Sergeants is generally considered the precursor to Gomer Pyle, USMC. Levin's first novel, A Kiss Before Dying, was well received, earning him the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. A Kiss Before Dying was turned into a movie twice, first in 1956, and again in 1991. Levin's best known play is Deathtrap, which holds the record as the longest-running comedy-thriller on Broadway and brought Levin his second Edgar Award. In 1982, it was made into a film starring Christopher Reeve and Michael Caine. Levin's best known novel is Rosemary's Baby, a horror story of modern day satanism and the occult, set in Manhattan's Upper West Side. It was made into a film starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes. Ruth Gordon won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance. Roman Polanski, who wrote and directed the film, was nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. Other Levin novels were turned into movies, including The Boys from Brazil in 1978; The Stepford Wives in 1975 and again in 2004; and Sliver in 1993. Stephen King has described Ira Levin as "the Swiss watchmaker of suspense novels, he makes what the rest of us do look like cheap watchmakers in drugstores." Chuck Palahniuk, in , calls Levin's writing "a smart, updated version of the kind of folksy legends that cultures have always used." Ira Levin died from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan, on 12 November 2007. He was seventy-eight at the time of his death.
23 Books Written
Listening Length = 8 hours and 25 minutesAn Edgar Award winner “widely regarded as a modern crime classic” (Time), named by Time as one of the 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time: A man determined to marry into wealth has found the perfect woman — but when Dorothy gets pregnant, he must make sinister adjustments to his plans… “Contains surprises w
Nightmares: Three Great Suspense NovelsRosemary's Baby. The Stepford Wives. A Kiss Before Dying
Rosemary's Baby chilled readers with its darkly brilliant story of modern-day witchcraft - a masterpiece of suspense, completely terrifying, and completely believable. Now Ira Levin returns to take us on a spellbinding new journey into darkness...It is the dawn of a new millennium. A time when human hope is shadowed by fear and uncertainty. When a mother is about to be reunited with he
Thriller New Revised Edition 2 male, 2 female Interior Set This chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary's Baby explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder. Students Susan and Larry find themselves as guests enticed to the Brabissant mansion by it's dissolute caretakers the lonely Mackeys. Struck by Susan's strong resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, long- dead
AN UPTOWN HIGH-RISEA glittering Manhattan "sliver" building.A successful single career woman.A shocking secret hidden in brick and concrete.A HIGH-TECH NIGHTMARESomeone is watching her.He watches her unpack, watches her make the bed; his eyes are everywhere.He owns the building: now he owns her.SLIVERTher
As outlined: "in the Vermont village of Greenfield Center, there is a genial, benevolent and greatly loved old physician who is very proud of his community. It is peopled with fine, wholesome folk, and it appears that Heaven rewards the civic virtue by seeing to it that mostly only those who are wicked at heart die. And the good Dr. Cook, who is willing to go out on sick calls at any hour of the d
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Alive and hiding in South America, Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project — the creation of the Fourth Reich. Barry Kohler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the project and informs famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman in Vienna.Why has Mengele marked a number of harmless aging men for murder? What is the hidden link that binds the
Suppose you were an up-to-date young wife who moved into an old and elegant New York apartment house with a rather strange past. Suppose that only after you became pregnant did you begin to suspect the building harbored a diabolically evil group of devil worshippers who had mastered the arts of black magic and witchcraft. Suppose that this satanic conspiracy set out to clai
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret—a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of you
The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called "The Family." The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by mea
Seemingly comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a "dry" spell which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college a thriller which Sidney
The Boys From Brazil / A Kiss Before Dying / Rosemary's Baby / Sliver / Son of Rosemary / The Stepford Wives / This Perfect Day
by Ira Levin
Rating: 4.2 ⭐
This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day, Sliver, Rosemary's Baby, the Stepford Wives, a Kiss Before Dying, Son of Rosemary. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Stepford Wives is a 1972 sa
In Rosemary’s Baby, Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband, Guy, move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and mostly elderly residents. Neighbors Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the building, and despite Rosemary’s reservations about their eccentricity and the weird noises that she
The Boys from Brazil / A Kiss Before Dying / Rosemary's Baby / Sliver / The Stepford Wives
by Ira Levin
Rating: 4.2 ⭐
Titles in this Set : Rosemary's Baby: Introduction by Chuck Palanhiuk, The Stepford Wives, A Kiss Before Dying: Introduction by Chelsea Cain, The Boys From Brazil, Sliver: Introduction by Jonathan Trigell. Description : Rosemary's Baby: Introduction by Chuck Palanhiuk Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor-husband, Guy, move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an o
Hilde, a young German refugee, works as a companion to Mrs. Price, a wealthy and beautiful invalid. Hilde's fiancé, Paul, is a pianist, now employed at a bakery and practicing at night for what he hopes will be a great career. Hilde brings Paul and Mrs. Price together in the hope that Mrs. Price will take an interest in the young musician, and she does. But Hilde's plans go awry as Mrs. Price's in
“Veronica’s Room” and Other Dramas: Dr. Cook’s Garden, Interlock, and Veronica’s Room
by Ira Levin
Rating: 4.0 ⭐
Ira Levin’s trio of dramatic plays includes Veronica’s Room, a chilling psychological drama that explores the thin line between reality and madness. This beautiful new edition includes an introduction by Nicholas Levin.Is Susan Susan—a self-possessed 1970s college student—or Veronica, a conflicted young lady of 1935, desperately believing herself to be a lat
