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Faye Levine
American writer and feminist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Faye Levine (18 January 1944 – 18 November 2014)[1] was an American writer and feminist.[2] She was the first woman to serve as the executive editor of the Harvard Crimson.[3]
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Early life and Harvard
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Faye Iris Levine was born on 18 January 1944 in Stamford, Connecticut,[4] the daughter of Bernard Harold Shulman (died 1954) and Lillian Haft.[1] She grew up in Peekskill, New York.[5] Her surname came from her adoptive father, Seymour Levine, who her mother married in 1955.[1] She had one sister, Mina.[1]
Levine earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University, gaining her B.A. in History and Literature in 1965,[4] her Master of Education in 1970, and her B.I. in 1974.[1] While at Harvard, she became the first woman executive editor of the Harvard Crimson and the first woman candidate for Harvard Class Marshal.[1][4] She was a student there at the same time as novelist Margaret Atwood.[6] Levine also spent a year living in India as a Fulbright scholar, where she taught English while living on a houseboat.[1][7]
Levine became "famous overnight at Harvard" for her 1963 article "The Three Flavors of Radcliffe".[8] In 1982, introducing Levine's 1965 essay "The girls who go to Harvard", The Harvard Book, wrote:
Among Harvard people of both sexes who go back to the mid-60s, Faye Levine is famed for three things. She was the first woman executive editor of the Harvard Crimson, she wrote a much quoted article on "the three flavors of Radcliffe," and she ran a bold, spectacular, unsuccessful campaign for marshal of the Harvard Class of 1965.[9]
Levine became a fellow of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.[4]
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Writing
Levine wrote on a range of subjects for many magazines, and was a contributor to publications including Lapham's Quarterly, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and Harper's Magazine.[3][10][11][9] She wrote four books (two novels and two works of non-fiction).[1] Her first novel,[12] Solomon and Sheba (1980), was adapted for the stage and had a limited run off-Broadway.[1]
Her second novel, Splendor and Misery: A Novel of Harvard (1983) was a largely autobiographical account of her time at the university.[3] It was described as "an elegant and witty fable," and John Leonard of The New York Times called it "marvelous... a splendid first novel".[12]
Levine was a consulting editor on, and contributor to, Feminist Revolution (1978), a collection published by the women's liberation group Redstockings, with which she had been involved since 1973.[2]
At the time of her death, Levine was working on a fifth book, Pythagoras: A Romantic Triangle.[1]
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Death
Faye Levine died at home on 18 November 2014, and was privately interred in Putnam Valley, New York.[1]
Bibliography
- The Strange World of the Hare Krishnas (1974)
- The Culture Barons: An Analysis of Power and Money in the Arts (1976)
- Solomon and Sheba (1980)
- Splendor and Misery: A Novel of Harvard (1983)[13]
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