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| 3 | Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist and dramatist. |
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| 5 | While he worked in a number of genres in his career (his output even includes a Broadway musical), he is most associated with the {{Thriller}}. In particular, he excelled at stories that placed outlandish premises into realistic settings, with plenty of suspense but also heavy doses of {{Satire}} and BlackComedy. He's been praised by the likes of Creator/StephenKing and Creator/ChuckPalahniuk for his mastery of plotting and pacing. |
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| 8 | !!Ira Levin works with their own trope pages include: |
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| 10 | * ''Literature/AKissBeforeDying'' (1953 novel, 1956 and 1991 films) |
| 11 | * ''Literature/RosemarysBaby'' (1967 novel, 1968 film, 2014 miniseries) |
| 12 | * ''Literature/ThisPerfectDay'' (1970 novel) |
| 13 | * ''Literature/TheStepfordWives'' (1972 novel, 1975 and 2004 films) |
| 14 | * ''Theatre/VeronicasRoom'' (1973 play) |
| 15 | * ''Literature/TheBoysFromBrazil'' (1976 novel, 1978 film) |
| 16 | * ''{{Film/Deathtrap}}'' (1978 play, 1982 film) |
| 17 | * ''{{Film/Sliver}}'' (1991 novel, 1993 film) |
| 18 | * ''Literature/SonOfRosemary'' (1997 novel; sequel to ''Rosemary's Baby'') |
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| 21 | !!This author's other works include examples of: |
| 22 | * CerebusSyndrome: Except for the [[FilmNoir Noir-ish]] novel ''A Kiss Before Dying'', his earliest successes were Broadway comedies. After ''Rosemary's Baby'' he switched to [[{{Thriller}} Thrillers]] with some BlackComedy elements. |
| 23 | * ChekhovsArmoury: Probably one of the finer examples of this trope, he's famous for salting his books with ''loads'' of foreshadowing clues, many of which fly under the radar until the second (or third!) reading. |
| 24 | * TropeCodifier: |
| 25 | ** ''No Time for Sergeants'', the Mac Hyman novel adapted by Levin for a live TV presentation and later a Broadway play (and a film, which Levin didn't write) established Will Stockdale (played by [[Series/TheAndyGriffithShow Andy Griffith]] in all three versions) as the definitive comedic version of SouthernFriedPrivate (and the ''Griffith''-spinoff ''Series/GomerPyleUSMC'' centered around a Stockdale {{Expy}}). |
| 26 | ** YouClonedHitler in ''The Boys from Brazil.'' |
| 27 | ** StepfordSmiler in ''Literature/TheStepfordWives'' |
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