Alvin Levin (1914–1981) was an American writer from
Paterson, New Jersey
Paterson ( ) is the largest City (New Jersey), city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[Bronx
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He is best known for the celebrated unfinished novel, ''Love is Like Park Avenue'', that he began writing in 1936. In 1943 Levin stopped writing entirely, entering a period of silence that ended with his death. A collection of his short fiction (
New Directions, 2009)
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Retrieved February 2015 was later given the same title. It primarily deals with the stories of lower-class Jews in New York, as told by a struggling "outsider artist" much like Levin himself.
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External links
An excerpt from ''Love Is Like Park Avenue.''
American fiction writers
Writers from Paterson, New Jersey
Writers from the Bronx
1914 births
1981 deaths
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