Jeremy Leven
Jeremy Leven | |
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| Born | August 16, 1941 South Bend, Indiana, U.S. |
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| Occupations | Screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist |
| Spouse | Roberta Danza (deceased) |
Jeremy Leven (born August 16, 1941) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist.
Early life and education
Born in South Bend, Indiana, Leven was educated at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, Harvard University, the University of Connecticut and Yale University Medical School.
Career
While at Harvard, he founded a satirical revue called The Proposition that ran for ten years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and off-Broadway.
Leven's first novel, Creator, was published in 1980 and released as a film of the same title in 1985. Leven was a practicing neuropsychiatrist, a theme incorporated in his second novel, Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S., which was published in 1982 and filmed as Crazy as Hell in 2002. His third and most recent novel, The Savior and the Singing Machine, was published in January 2019.
Leven wrote and directed Don Juan DeMarco (1994), wrote and produced Alex & Emma (2003), wrote the screenplays for The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), The Notebook (2004), My Sister's Keeper (2009), and Real Steel (2011), and did uncredited writing on The Time Traveler's Wife (2009). Recently, Leven wrote and directed Girl on a Bicycle (2013).
Awards
- 1999 – Connie Award" Outstanding Achievement in Film, Connecticut Film Commission
- 2003 – "Meilleur Sceneriste" (Best Screenwriter) – European Award conferred by Prince Albert of Monaco
- 2006 – "Special Award for Outstanding Achievement", SunDeis Film Festival, Brandeis University
- 2014 – "Lifetime Achievement – Excellence in Screenwriting", Sedona International Film Festival
Personal life
Leven lives in Woodbridge, Connecticut; Paris; and New York City.
References
- Contemporary Authors, Thomson Gale, 2004
External links
- Jeremy Leven at IMDb
- 1941 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American male novelists
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American screenwriters
- 20th-century people from Connecticut
- 20th-century people from Indiana
- 20th-century people from New York (state)
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American screenwriters
- 21st-century people from Connecticut
- 21st-century people from Indiana
- 21st-century people from New York (state)
- American expatriate writers
- American expatriates in France
- American male screenwriters
- Businesspeople from Paris
- Expatriate businesspeople in France
- Film directors from Connecticut
- Film directors from Indiana
- Film directors from New York City
- Film directors from Paris
- Film producers from Connecticut
- Film producers from Indiana
- Film producers from New York City
- Harvard University alumni
- Novelists from Connecticut
- Novelists from Indiana
- Novelists from New York City
- Novelists from Paris
- People from Woodbridge, Connecticut
- St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni
- Screenwriters from Connecticut
- Screenwriters from Indiana
- Screenwriters from New York City
- University of Connecticut alumni
- Writers from South Bend, Indiana
- Yale School of Medicine alumni