Paul Levitt earned a Ph.D. in English at UCLA and has taught at the University of Colorado since 1964, spending many summers in London writing plays for the BBC Radio. His great passion is writing historical fiction, which has enabled him to visit the Jazz Age (Chin Music), McCarthyism (Dark Matters), immigrants to America (Come with Me to Babylon), 12th-century England (The Saint-Makers), Soviet Russia (Stalin’s Barber), Nazi Germany (Yana), postwar Berlin (Berlin Revisited), and mid-century American upper-crust society (Rowing to Ithaca). A prolific author, Paul has published 13 novels, 17 plays, 7 children’s books, and numerous academic treatises.
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