Paul M Levitt

Paul M. Levitt was born in Newark, New Jersey. He 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 fction, which has enabled him to visit the Jazz Age (Chin Music), McCarthy-ism (Dark Matters), immigrants to America (Come with Me to Babylon), 12th-century England (THE SAINT- MAKERS), Soviet Russia (Stalin's Barber), World War II Germany (YANA and BERLIN REVISITED), and postwar upper-crust America (ROWING TO ITHACA). A prolific author, Paul has published 14 novels, 17 plays, 7 children's books, and numerous academic treatises.