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Ira Levin
American novelist, playwright
1929 – 2007aged 78
A novelist and playwright with an unusual knack for turning ordinary suburban and domestic settings into sources of dread: Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, and A Kiss Before Dying all became major films, and his play Deathtrap remains one of the longest-running thrillers in Broadway history. He received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1996 and the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award for his science fiction novel This Perfect Day.