Allan Levine

For other uses, see Levine.
Not to be confused with Al Levine or Allan Levene.

Allan Levine
Levine in 2023
Born
Winnipeg, Manitoba
OccupationAuthor
Years active1985–present
Websitewww.allanlevinebooks.com

Allan Levine is a Canadian author from Winnipeg, Manitoba, known mainly for his non-fiction and historical mystery writing.

Life and works

Levine attended the University of Manitoba and the University of Toronto. He received a PhD in Canadian history from the University of Toronto in 1985. His graduate thesis on the grain business in Winnipeg was turned into his first book in 1987, at which point he was teaching and freelancing as a journalist. He is an alumnus of Camp Massad of Manitoba.[1][2]

Levine's non-fiction work Fugitives of the Forest was awarded the Yad Vashem Prize in Holocaust History in the 1999 Canadian Jewish Book Awards. His series of Sam Klein Mysteries followed. In late 2004, Levine toured Germany promoting Die Sünden der Suffragetten, the German translation of his mystery Sins of the Suffragette.[3][4] On October 2, 2020, the University of Winnipeg announced that Levine would receive an honorary doctor of laws at the convocation on October 23, 2020.[5]

Published works

Non-fiction

  • The Dollar A Year Men: How the Best Business Brains in Canada Helped to Win the Second World War. Toronto: Barlow Books, 2025.[6]
  • Details are Unprintable: Wayne Lonergan and the Sensational Café Society Murder . Guilford, Ct: Lyons Press, 2020.[7]
  • Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2018.[8]
  • Toronto: Biography of a City. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2014.[9]
  • Miracle at the Forks: The Museum That Dares Make a Difference. Vancouver: Figure 1 Publishing, 2014. Co-authored with Peter C. Newman
  • King: William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guide by the Hand of Destiny. Vancouver and Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011. Winner of the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, 2012.[10]
  • Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba. Winnipeg: Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada and Heartland Associates, 2009. Winner of the McNally-Robinson Book of the Year, 2010 and the Winner of the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for History, 2010.
  • The Devil in Babylon: Fear of Progress and the Birth of Modern Life. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2005.
  • Scattered Among the Peoples: The Jewish Diaspora in Ten Portraits. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2002.
  • Fugitives of the Forest: The Heroic Story of Jewish Resistance and Survival During the Second World War. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1998. Second Edition: Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2008. Winner of the Yad Vashem Prize in Holocaust History, Canadian Jewish Book Awards, 1999
  • Scrum Wars: The Prime Ministers and the Media. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1993.
  • The Exchange: 100 Years of Trading Grain in Winnipeg. Winnipeg: Peguis Publishers Limited, 1987.

Historical fiction

References

  1. ^ Morley Walker, "Allan Levine to write Mackenzie King biography," Winnipeg Free Press, September 10, 2009, D2.
  2. ^ Canadian Who's Who, ed. Elizambeth Lumley, Vol. XXXIX, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004, 773.
  3. ^ Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards Past Award Winners, http://kofflerarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/CJBA_pastwinners_1989-2013.pdf
  4. ^ Ilan Mester, "Allan Levine has a lot to Celebrate," Shalom Life," May 17, 2010, "Allan Levine Has a Lot to Celebrate - Shalom Life". Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
  5. ^ "Tantoo Cardinal and Allan Levine to be honoured by U Winnipeg". Retrieved October 4, 2020.
  6. ^ "The Dollar a Year Men".
  7. ^ Levine, Allan (October 2020). Details Are Unprintable: Wayne Lonergan and the Sensational Cafe Society Murder. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4930-5787-0.
  8. ^ Levine, Allan (October 30, 2018). Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience. McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-4806-7.
  9. ^ Levine, Allan (September 13, 2014). Toronto: Biography of a City. Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Limited. ISBN 978-1-77162-043-7.
  10. ^ Levine, Allan Gerald (2011). King: William Lyon Mackenzie King : A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny. Douglas & McIntyre. ISBN 978-1-55365-560-2.
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