Meet Michael Levin

Bestselling author Michael Levin is an Amherst College graduate and Columbia Law School-trained attorney whose publishing career includes more than 60 works-his own novels and nonfiction books, several dozen ghostwritten books and several ghostwritten novels; a commissioned screenplay and the script for a DVD series.

Two of his current nonfiction books are:

Dropping the Ball, with Hall-of-Fame baseball player Dave Winfield, published by Scribner in March, 2007

No Ordinary Love, with NBA star Doug Christie and Jackie Christie, published in June, 2007

He has previously published with Simon & Schuster (three novels) and Putnam/Berkley (two novels), with Beacon Press, Random House, and St. Martin’s Press. One of his novels became an ABC Sunday night Disney movie of the week. He has also contributed to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Jerusalem Post, Writers Digest, CBS News, and many other outlets and publications. He is a member of the Massachusetts bar.

Michael is one of the most accomplished business ghostwriters in the nation, having written more than 60 books for private clients focusing on finance, technology, consulting, real estate, medical devices, health care, insurance, philanthropy, and many other topics. His client list includes a member of the Forbes 400, the number two man of a second individual on the Forbes 400, three different investors and business people each with net worths of over half a billion dollars, and business leaders across the country.

Michael’s books have received outstanding reviews in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, People Magazine, Esquire, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Examiner, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist, and other publications from coast to coast.

One of his New York Times opinion pieces was anthologized in a college textbook on writing. He has served as a consultant on creativity to the NBC and WB Television Networks and to the largest law firm in Los Angeles, Loeb & Loeb; and as a faculty member at UCLA (1990-2001) and New York University (1997-2000).

Consulting Work:

Michael also has consulted to hundreds of authors, ranging from international bestsellers to individuals seeking to become published authors. His clients and students include five bestselling authors. Among them: Patricia Aburdene (Megatrends and Reinventing the Corporation); Sheneska Jackson and Jenoyne Adams; and Maureen Quinn, who wrote a novel under his direction and sold screen rights to Janine Turner of TV’s Northern Exposure, and many others who sold their novels-often their first novels-to major publishing houses.

Levin has also worked with individuals on a psychiatric unit (for two years); in hospitals, prisons and jails; in public schools across the country; and in a homeless shelter.

Sample Reviews of Michael’s work:

“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

“Levin’s verbal humor glistens.”
The New Yorker

“Lively with the indignation of a bright young man whose time has been wasted.”
The Washington Post

“You needn’t have attended law school to fall in love with The Socratic Method.”
San Francisco Chronicle

“Levin satirizes as effectively as Calvin Trillin and Kingsley Amis.”
People Magazine

“A marvelously complex plot…A thoroughly good time.”
The New York Times Book Review

“Irresistible…It’s hard not to get caught up in the frenzy.”
Los Angeles Times

“The plot lines are ingeniously and meticulously drawn.”
Cleveland Plain Dealer

“A master of complex plotting”
Booklist