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Fictionwise eBooks: Meyer Levin (483 words) |
 | Levin attended the University of Chicago, where, as a student reporter, he covered the sensational 1924 murder trial of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, in which Clarence Darrow defended the two young rich men who had killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks for the thrill of it. |
| Levin's frustrated attempts to dramatize the diary of Anne Frank led him to write two novels (The Fanatic in 1964 and The Obsession in 1973) that dealt with his belief that his treatment of the material was rejected because of his strong anti-Communist stance. |
| Levin's last published work was The Architect (1982), in which he revisited early-20th-century Chicago in a fictionalized treatment of the life of Frank Lloyd Wright. |
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