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Levin, Ira
The American novelist, playwright and scriptwriter Ira Levin was born in Bronx in New York; he was the only child in the family. His father, Charles Levin, was a successful businessman in the toy trade. Ira Levin started his academic education at Drake University in Des Moines, but after a couple of years moved to New York University, where he gained a B.A. in Philosophy and English in 1950.
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Literary figures
Nate Heller
Gender: Male
His father was a police officer and Nathan ‘Nate’ Heller was one too. But he allowed himself to be corrupted, and instead became a successful private detective in the gangster-infected Chicago of the 1930s. He is of early middle age, morally rather lax, but he has a pleasant attitude and socialises with some of the city’s (real!) artists and criminals in a series of stories by Max Allan Collins.