Ira Levin
Ira Levin was a versatile American writer whose work spanned novels, plays, and screenplays.
A graduate of New York University with a philosophy and English degree, he won two Edgar Awards — first for his debut novel A Kiss Before Dying, then for his record-breaking Broadway thriller Deathtrap.
His most celebrated novel, Rosemary's Baby, became a landmark Roman Polanski film.
Nearly all of Levin's novels were adapted for cinema.
Stephen King famously called him "the Swiss watchmaker of suspense novels." Levin died of a heart attack in Manhattan in November 2007, aged seventy-eight.
