Jeremy Leven is an American screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. Born in 1941 in South Bend, Indiana, Leven lives in Woodbridge, Connecticut, Nantucket, and Paris.

Leven was educated at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, Harvard University, the University of Connecticut and Yale University Medical School. While at Harvard he founded a satirical revue called "The Proposition" that ran for ten years in Cambridge, Massachusetts and off-Broadway.

Leven's first novel, Creator, was published in 1982 and released as a feature film in 1985. Leven is a practicing clinical psychologist, a theme incorporated in his second novel, Satan, His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S which was published by Knopf in 1980 and filmed as Crazy As Hell in 2002.

Leven wrote and directed Don Juan DeMarco, released in 1995, wrote and produced Alex & Emma (2003)), and penned the screenplays for The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) and The Notebook (2004). His screenplay for The Time Traveler's Wife was in production in 2007.

Awards

Special Award for Outstanding Achievement, SunDeis Film Festival, Brandeis University, 2006

External links

• Jeremy Leven filmography at imdb.com
• Jeremy Leven biography at imdb.com

References

Contemporary Authors, Thompson Gale, 2004

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