William Levy (author), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American journalist
Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1939
Date of Death: 22-Apr-2019
Profession: writer, author, journalist, radio personality
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About William Levy (author)
- William Levy (January 10, 1939 – April 22, 2019), also known as the Talmudic Wizard of Amsterdam, was an American writer, editor and former radio personality, plus the author of such works as The Virgin Sperm Dancer, Wet Dreams, Certain Radio Speeches of Ezra Pound and Natural Jewboy. Before leaving the U.S.
- in the autumn of 1966 aboard the R.M.S Queen Mary, Mr.
- Levy attended the University of Maryland and Temple University and taught in the literature department at Shippensburg State College, in Pennsylvania.
- In the sixties and seventies, he was founder and chief-editor of many magazines such as: The Insect Trust Gazette, International Times, Suck, and The Fanatic.
- Recently, he served as European Editor for American glossy fanzines High Times and Penthouse magazine and as an associate editor of Amsterdam zines Het Gewicht, Ins & Outs, La Linea and Atom Club.
- Mr.
- Levy has been a regular contributor to Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse and Libido, and additionally published his own Transactions of the Invisible Language Society series.
- His meditation play Europe in Flames was also featured at the Festival of New Radio in New York.
- In 1998, Mr.
- Levy was awarded the Erotic Oscar for writing at London's Sex Maniac's Ball.
- Until his recent retirement from radio and for 20 years non-stop, Mr.
- Levy's alter-ego, Dr.
- Doo Wop, could be heard weekly spinning groovy music across Amsterdam's airwaves. Until his death following a long illness, Levy lived in Amsterdam with his wife, the literary translator Susan Janssen (translator of many works of Charles Bukowski and of F.
- Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby).
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