Bob Levin
Writer of fiction and non-fiction

Bob Levin's Biography

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Member since: Mar 2008

Bob Levin was born in Philadelphia March 14, 1942. Since 1968, he has lived in Berkeley with his wife Adele, a writer and retired psychotherapist. A retired attorney, he represented the injured in workers' compensation cases for more than 40 years.

Levin is the author of THE BEST RIDE TO NEW YORK (novel), FULLY ARMED (biographic fiction), THE PIRATES AND THE MOUSE (non-fiction), OUTLAWS, REBELS, PIRATES, FREETHINKERS & PORNOGRAPHERS (essays), and MOST OUTRAGEOUS (non-fiction). His short stories and articles have appeared in a variety of publications, including MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW, CAROLINA QUARTERLY, KARAMU, SPIN, NEW REPUBLIC, and CAVALIER. His writings have won awards from Pushcart Press, CCLM, the San Francisco Bar Association, and the NEA. He is a long time contributing writer to THE COMICS JOURNAL.

Influences

Starting out, Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Chandler. Currently, Joan Didion and Janet Malcolm -- and Will Cuppy for the footnotes.

Upcoming Works

My feature article on Albert Morse, one of the great American eccentrics of the second half of the twentieth century, is slated for issue 302 of THE COMICS JOURNAL. The online JOURNAL will soon be showing my previous published interview of S. Clay Wilson. "Montague Street," a quarterly devoted to Bob Dylan, will be publishing a slightly revised version of my long neglected (and greatly under-appreciated) "Bob Dylan" The Man, the Moment, and the Italian Meats Sandwich." I will have an article about my relationship with boxing during the 1950s and '60s in FIRST OF THE YEAR 2012, and I have composed the text for plaques honoring the residences of writer/editor/publisher Don Donohue and cartoonist/tattooist Greg Irons for the Berkeley Plaque Commission's forthcoming virtual map of Berkeley.