Meyer Levin

• Feb-2017
• / Literary

This 1940 novel of the labor movement offers an unflinching portrait of a Chicago steel strike: "A fine American novel -- one of the best I ever read" (Ernest Hemingway). For Chicago physician Mitch Wilner, July 4, 1937, began as a typical holiday...

• May-2015
• / General Fiction

Two lovestruck teenagers stumble toward adulthood in 1920s Chicago in a novel by "one of the best American writers working in the realistic tradition" (Norman Mailer). Johnnie didn't plan on falling for Frankie. She was too young, too naïve, and ...

• Aug-2014
• / General Fiction

The acclaimed autobiography of the Chicago journalist and author hailed as “the most significant American Jewish writer” of the mid-twentieth century (Los Angeles Times).Raised in the notorious Bloody Nineteenth Ward in Chicago, Meyer Levin lande...

• Aug-2014
• / General Fiction

In 1951, Meyer Levin’s wife gave him a copy of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, which had just been published in France. Levin was already a successful writer in his mid-forties, searching for a way to bear witness to his experiences as a w...

• Jul-2014
• / General Fiction

Science and mysticism collide in this romantic fable from the acclaimed author of Compulsion and The Old Bunch. When Félicité, a young French researcher, travels to Jerusalem to study the secrets of life alongside renowned professor Uriel Buchha...

• Apr-1996
• / Legal Thriller

Judd Steiner and Artie Straus have it all: wealth, intelligence, and the world at their feet as part of the elite, upper-crust Jewish community of 1920s Chicago. Artie is handsome, athletic, and popular, but he possesses a hidden, powerful sadistic s...

• Jan-1987
• / General Fiction

From the acclaimed author of Compulsion comes the saga of a Jewish family that flees Russia to become settlers of the nascent state of Israel. Proclaimed "most significant American Jewish writer of his time" by Los Angeles Times, Meyer Levinturns ...

• Jan-1982
• / General Fiction

• 1979
• / General Fiction

The family saga that began in The Settlers continues through WWII and the creation of Israel in a novel that "follows history's beat closely and knowingly" (Kirkus Reviews). When the Chaimovitch family fled the Russian pogroms at the turn of the t...

• / General Fiction

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...