| LC control no. | n 81006889 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Levy, Alan |
| Other standard no. | 0000000118390885 |
| Associated country | Czech Republic Austria United States |
| Located | Prague (Czech Republic) Vienna (Austria) New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1932-02-10 |
| Death date | 2004-04-02 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Prague (Czech Republic) |
| Field of activity | Journalism Journalism--Editing |
| Affiliation | Vienna's English Theatre (Vienna, Austria) |
| Profession or occupation | Journalists Newspaper editors Dramaturges |
| Found in | His Draftee's confidential guide, 1957. His W.H. Auden, c1983: title page (Alan Levy) WW East 1983-1984 (Levy Alan Joseph, b. NYC 2/10/32; resides Vienna, Austria) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 2/10/32) Wikipedia, viewed February 23, 2021 (Alan Levy; American author; born February 10, 1932 in New York City; educated at Brown and Columbia Universities; in 1952, at Brown, he co-wrote an original Brownbrokers musical titled Anything can be fixed; he worked seven years as a reporter for the Louisville courier-journal in Kentucky; later on, he spent seven years in New York as journalist writing for Life magazine, The Saturday evening post, The New York times and others; in 1967, he moved to Prague to collaborate on an American version of a musical by Jiří Šlitr and Jiří Suchý; shortly after he covered the Prague Spring and the Soviet invasion, chronicling the events in Rowboat to Prague; he was expelled from the city in 1971 and settled in Vienna, Austria, where he wrote for the International herald tribune, Life, Good housekeeping, The New York times magazine, Time, and others; he was also dramaturge of Vienna's English Theatre and taught literature, writing, journalism and drama; he returned to Prague in 1990; from 1991 to his death on April 2, 2004 he was editor-in-chief of The Prague post; in 1993 he published The Wiesenthal file and also wrote a play, The world of Ruth Draper, as well as the libretto for the symphonic requiem Just an accident?) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 50070303 |
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