Ariel S. Leve

Ariel S. Leve
Born January 24, 1968
New York City
Occupation Journalist

Ariel S. Leve (born January 24, 1968) is an award-winning journalist based in New York and London. A senior writer on contract with the London Sunday Times Magazine since 2003, she has written over a dozen cover stories, high-profile interviews, and in-depth, investigative features.

Early life

Ariel Leve was born in New York City and grew up with her mother, a poet, in Manhattan. At age five she began traveling to Southeast Asia, where she spent part of the year living in Bangkok, Thailand, with her father, a lawyer.

Career

From October 2005 to January 2010 Leve wrote a weekly column under the title "Cassandra"[1] for the Sunday Times Magazine. Prior to that, the column ran in The Guardian under the title "Half Empty". The Cassandra Chronicles was published in the UK in August 2009 by Portobello Books, and in the US by Harper Perennial under the title It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me. Leve's television pilot of It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me was optioned by Cineflix Studios.

Leve's work has appeared frequently in The Guardian. She has contributed to Vogue (UK), Granta, the Evening Standard (UK), Elle, Marie Claire, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, The Jewish Chronicle, The New York Observer, Psychologies, and other publications.

Feature articles by Leve have covered the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, women who guard the women on Death Row, and a series of features on veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Examples of other cover subjects include the Amish and how they discourage the younger generation from leaving the fold; the story of Iraq war veteran Tyler Ziegel and his wife Renee, one year after his return from Iraq, and the toll it took on their marriage;[2] US Marines who have been wounded and the reconstructive surgery they are receiving; demystifying the Chelsea Hotel; a look at the anger management business; a polemic on the importance of listening; the love story of Steve McQueen and his widow, Barbara; what science can tell us about ourselves and how much we really want to know; a profile of Stan Brock, a penniless Brit who is working to solve the US health care crisis; and a cover story which examined what happens to unidentified bodies in Britain told through a six-month investigation tracing the identity of an unknown and unmourned man named Andrew Smith.

Interview profiles have included Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Arthur Miller, Bill Nighy (cover), Tom Cruise (cover), Dan Rather, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton, Mickey Rourke (cover), Richard Pryor (cover), Elton John (cover), Christopher Walken, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Edward Norton, John Irving, and many others.

Since January 2010, Leve has been writing "The Fussy Eater"[3] column which appears in the Observer Food Monthly.

Awards

She has been shortlisted for the British Press Awards three times: for Interviewer of the Year (2005 and 2010), and for Feature Writer of the Year, (2008). She has been Highly Commended by the British Press Awards twice: for Feature Writer (2008) and for Interviewer of the Year in the Sunday Times Magazine (2010). Leve was named Feature Writer of the Year from the Magazine Design and Journalism Awards (2008).

Books

References

  1. ↑ The Sunday Times: Cassandra Final "Cassandra" column.
  2. ↑ The Sunday Times: Tyler Ziegel and Renee, "Tyler Ziegel and Renee: One Year On"
  3. ↑ Observer Food Monthly"The Fussy Eater" column

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