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Levin studied at New York University, where he majored in philosophy and English. After that, he wrote training films and scripts for television. He wrote his first novel, A Kiss Before Dying , when he was 22 years old. Levin is an unusually gifted and versatile writer who is adept at thrillers and comedy. For example, he wrote the play No Time For Sergeants , which later became a popular film that launched the career of Andy Griffith.
Levin's crowning achievement as a playwright, however, is the comedy thriller Deathtrap, which is still the longest running play on Broadway. In 1982, it was made into a film starring Christopher Reeve and Michael Caine.
Ira Levin's best known novel is Rosemary's Baby, a horrifying tale of satanism and the occultFor other uses of this term, see occult (disambiguation). The word occult comes from Latin occultus (hidden), referring to the knowledge of the secret' or 'knowledge of the hidden' and often meaning 'knowledge of the supernatural', as opposed to 'knowledg. It was made into a film as was another of his novels, The Boys from BrazilThe Boys from Brazil (1976) is a fiction thriller novel by Ira Levin. It was subsequently made into a movie which was released in 1978 (see The Boys from Brazil (movie)). This is one of the earliest pieces of science fiction to deal seriously with the pro. Levin wrote about real life Nazi war criminal Josef MengeleJosef Mengele ( March 16, 1911 February 7, 1979) was a Nazi doctor who performed experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz which were condemned as murderously sadistic and participated in the selections of people to be sent to the gas chambers. Mengele's nick attempting to create an army of HitlerAdolf Hitler ( April 20, 1889 April 30, 1945) was the Fuhrer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. In that capacity he was Chancellor of Germany, head of government, and head of state, ruling as a cloneThe term clone is derived from kappa;λω&nu the Greek word for "twig". In horticulture, the spelling clon was used until the twentieth century. The final e came into use to indicate the vowel is a "long o" instead of a "short o"; see the refers. This novel was even more terrifying because Levin made the idea so convincing. No less than Stephen KingThis page is about Stephen Edwin King, the writer. There is also Stephen King, a convicted British paedophile. Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is a prolific American author best known for his horror novels. King's books have been extremely po 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".