Michael Z. Lewin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Michael Z. Lewin

American writer

Date of Birth: 21-Jul-1942

Place of Birth: Springfield, Massachusetts, United States

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Michael Zinn Lewin (born 1942, Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American writer of mystery fiction perhaps best known for his series about Albert Samson, a distinctly low-keyed, non-hardboiled private detective who plies his trade in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Lewin himself grew up in Indianapolis, but after graduating from Harvard and living for a few years in New York City, has lived in England for the last 40 years.
Much of his fiction continues to be set in Indianapolis, including a secondary series about Leroy Powder, a policeman who frequently appears in the Samson novels, generally in a semi-confrontational manner. Another series, however, is set in Bath, England, where Lewin now lives.
This features the Lunghis who run their detective agency as a family business.
So far there are three novels and nine short stories about them. Lewin has also written a number of stand-alone novels.
Some have been set in Indianapolis and others elsewhere.
His latest novel, Confessions of a Discontented Deity, is even set partly in Heaven.
A satire, it breaks from Lewin's history of genre fiction. Lewin is the son of Leonard C.
Lewin, author of the 1967 bestselling satire The Report from Iron Mountain: On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace.