Veritas

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MICHAEL H. LEVIN is an environmental lawyer, solar energy developer and writer based in Washington DC and Menemsha (Martha's Vineyard) MA. His work has appeared in over 50 periodicals or anthologies and has received numerous poetry and feature journalism awards, including citations in national chapbook or anthology competitions and in Writers Digest international poetry events. His previous collection, Watered Colors (Poetica), was named a Best Poetry Book for May 2014 by the Washington Independent Review of Books. He recently co-authored and co-produced Two Pianos: Playing for Life, a play with live classical music, visual projections and an accompanying exhibit about young mothers who gave two-piano concerts after the Nazis banned them from public performances, which had a June 2018 trial run in Philadelphia. Mike has written op-eds for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post and feature articles for Harvard Magazine among other publications. He has been a federal government senior executive, a legislative aide on Capitol Hill, and a contributing writer to the Pennsylvania Gazette. He currently is a Contributing Editor to BioCycle Magazine. Since the last Ice Age he has been married to Nora Jean Levin, a long-time consumer advocate, eldercare adviser, and executive director of Caring From A Distance, Inc., the country's only non-profit information clearinghouse for long-distance caregivers. They live five minutes from their two grandsons, who also write poems.

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Harvard. Sex. Politics. Race. Twins. Money. Secrets. Scandal. Truth. A shocking and powerful tale of the reality of race relations in American society that answers the question: How do whites and Blacks really view each other today? Praise for Michael Levin's Previous Novels "Levin's verbal humor glistens." The New Yorker. "Lively with the indignation of a bright young man." The Washington Post. "Outrageous ... passionate ... funny ... entertaining ... satirically engaging ... so amusingly complex that one can't help getting caught up by its machinery." The New York Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. "A marvelously complex plot ... a thoroughly good time." Sunday New York Times Book Review. "Irresistible ... It's hard not to get caught up in the frenzy." Los Angeles Times "A master of complex plotting" Booklist