Meyer Levin
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Meyer Levin (October 7, 1905 – July 9, 1981) was an American novelist who commented on the Leopold and Loeb case and wrote the 1956 novel Compulsion inspired by it. Levin had attended college with Leopold and Loeb at the University of Chicago, before the murder of Bobby Franks.
The novel, for which Levin was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America in 1957, was the basis for the 1957 play Compulsion and the 1959 film based on it.
Levin was one of the first American journalists to become aware of the existence of Anne Frank's diary, and he was also one of the first people to recognize the literary and dramatic potential of this document. He wrote to and met Otto Frank, the father of Anne Frank. Levin became convinced that he had a strong interest in the text, and he later became obsessed when Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett successfully adapted the diary into a hit play while the play Meyer Levin had written was rejected. His 30 years battle to have his play performed and the legal battles that resulted can be found in An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary by Lawrence Graver. As well as in his wife,Tereska Torres book in french:"Les maisons hantees de Meyer Levin",published by Editions Phebus (Paris)
Novels The Reporter (1929) Frankie and Johnny (1930) Yehude (1931) The New Bridge (1933) The Old Bunch (1937) Citizens (1940) My Father's House (1947) Compulsion (1956) Eva (1959) The Fanatic (1964) The Stronghold (1965) Gore and Igor (1968) The Settlers (1972) The Spell of Time (1974) The Harvest (1978) The Architect (1981)
Autobiographical Works In Search (1949) The Obsession (1974)
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