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Faye Levine
Born(1944-01-18)January 18, 1944
Stamford, Connecticut
DiedNovember 18, 2014(2014-11-18) (aged 70)
Resting placePutnam Valley, New York
Alma materHarvard University
Occupation(s)Writer and feminist
OrganizationRedstockings
Known forBeing the first woman executive editor of The Harvard Crimson
Notable workSplendor and Misery: A Novel of Harvard (1983)

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]

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]

Writing

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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]

Death

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Faye Levine died at home on 18 November 2014, and was privately interred in Putnam Valley, New York.[1]

Bibliography

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  • 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]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Faye Levine". New York Times. 5 January 2015.
  2. ^ a b Sarachild, Kathie, ed. (1978). Feminist Revolution. Internet Archive. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-394-40821-7.
  3. ^ a b c "Levine". Lapham’s Quarterly. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  4. ^ a b c d Dubois, Diana, ed. (1982). My Harvard, My Yale. Internet Archive. New York: Random House. pp. 98–106. ISBN 978-0-394-51920-3.
  5. ^ "For Men Only". The New York Times. 24 January 1965. p. 8.
  6. ^ Sullivan, Rosemary (1998). The red shoes : Margaret Atwood starting out. Internet Archive. Toronto : HarperFlamingo Canada. ISBN 978-0-00-255423-7.
  7. ^ Levine, Faye (1966-11-01). "Life, Love, and the Movies in India". The Atlantic. ISSN 2151-9463. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  8. ^ Gay American autobiography: writings from Whitman to Sedaris. Internet Archive. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-299-23044-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ^ a b Bentinck-Smith, William (1982). The Harvard book : selections from three centuries. Internet Archive. Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-37301-3.
  10. ^ "Faye Levine, The Atlantic". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  11. ^ Levine, Faye (May 1974). "Where marriages are arranged". Harper's Magazine.
  12. ^ a b Levine, Faye (1983). Splendor and misery : a novel of Harvard. Internet Archive. New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's/Marek. ISBN 978-0-312-75269-9.
  13. ^ OpenLibrary.org. "Faye Levine". Open Library. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
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