{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Ira Levin","url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/ira-levin","author_name":"Ira Levin","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/ira-levin","description":"Ira Levin was born in 1929 in New York City and is a graduate of New York University. He wrote television plays and short stories and, when he was twenty-two, A Kiss Before Dying. After two years of military service he turned to playwriting; No Time for Sergeants, adapted from Mac Hyman\u0026#39;s novel was his most successful stage work, but his favorite is a musical called Drat! The Cat! for which he wrote the book and lyrics. Its early closing sent him back to novel writing, and the outcome was the diabolical chiller Rosemary\u0026#39;s Baby. He has since written another play, Dr. Cook\u0026#39;s Garden,  filmed by Paramount Pictures in 1971, and he is nearing completon of another novel. He  lives in Manhattan, is divorced, and has three sons.","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/authors/226778/9052542-L.jpg","thumbnail_width":220,"thumbnail_height":220}