Ariel S. Leve

Ariel S. Leve
Born (1968-01-24) January 24, 1968
New York, New York
Occupation Journalist, author
Citizenship United States
Genre Non fiction, memoir
Notable works An Abbreviated Life
Website
www.ariel-leve.com

Ariel S. Leve (born January 24, 1968) is an American writer. An award-winning journalist and columnist, she was a senior writer for the Sunday Times Magazine in London for over ten years. Her memoir An Abbreviated Life was published by HarperCollins in 2016 [1] to widespread critical acclaim and was described by The New York Times [2] as "mesmerizing".

Early life

Ariel Leve was born in New York City and grew up with her mother Sandra Hochman in Manhattan.[3] At age five she began traveling to Southeast Asia, where she spent part of the year living in Bangkok, Thailand, with her father. Her early life is the subject of An Abbreviated Life.[1]

Career

From October 2005 to January 2010 Leve wrote a weekly column under the title "Cassandra"[4] for the Sunday Times Magazine. Prior to that, the column ran in The Guardian under the title "Half Empty". The Cassandra Chronicles was published in the UK in August 2009 by Portobello Books, and in the US by Harper Perennial under the title It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me. Leve's television pilot of It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me was optioned by Cineflix Studios.

Leve's work has appeared frequently in The Guardian. She has contributed to Vogue (UK), Granta, the Evening Standard (UK), Elle, Marie Claire, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, The Jewish Chronicle, The New York Observer, Psychologies, and other publications.

Feature articles by Leve have covered the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, women who guard the women on Death Row, and a series of features on veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Examples of other cover subjects include the Amish and how they discourage the younger generation from leaving the fold; the story of Iraq war veteran Tyler Ziegel and his wife Renee, one year after his return from Iraq, and the toll it took on their marriage;[5] US Marines who have been wounded and the reconstructive surgery they are receiving; demystifying the Chelsea Hotel; a look at the anger management business; a polemic on the importance of listening; the love story of Steve McQueen and his widow, Barbara; what science can tell us about ourselves and how much we really want to know; a profile of Stan Brock, a penniless Brit who is working to solve the US health care crisis; and a cover story which examined what happens to unidentified bodies in Britain told through a six-month investigation tracing the identity of an unknown and unmourned man named Andrew Smith.

Among others, Leve has profiled Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Arthur Miller, Bill Nighy, Tom Cruise, Dan Rather, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton, Mickey Rourke, Richard Pryor, Elton John, Christopher Walken, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Edward Norton, and John Irving.

From January 2010 until February 2011, Leve wrote "The Fussy Eater"[6] column which appeared in the Observer Food Monthly.[6]

Leve's book, An Abbreviated Life, will be published in June 2016. A memoir about the "turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent father," it "explores the consequences of a psychologically harrowing childhood as she seeks refuge from the past and recovers what was lost." Described as "a candid rendering of pain and survival," by Kirkus Reviews, Richard Ford wrote that ''An Abbreviated Life adds a harrowing chapter to the great tragi-comedy called “We Don’t Get To Choose Our Parents.” Ariel Leve’s extremely readable memoir is, at its heart, a story about surviving childhood—a trick we must all perform. Even in its raw extremes, her story is a universal one.” The BBC recommended the book as "raw and powerful...an unsentimental tale, both cautionary and heartening." [1][7][8]

Awards

She has been shortlisted for the British Press Awards three times: for Interviewer of the Year (2005 and 2010), and for Feature Writer of the Year in 2008. Leve was named Feature Writer of the Year by the Magazine Design and Journalism Awards in 2008. [9]

Books

References

  1. 1 2 3 "An Abbreviated Life". HarperCollins.com. HarperCollins. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  2. ↑ The New York Times
  3. ↑ The Barnes & Noble Review The Barnes & Noble Review
  4. ↑ The Sunday Times: Cassandra Final "Cassandra" column.
  5. ↑ The Sunday Times: Tyler Ziegel and Renee, "Tyler Ziegel and Renee: One Year On"
  6. 1 2 Observer Food Monthly"The Fussy Eater" column
  7. ↑ Ciabattari, Jane (May 31, 2016). "Ten Books to Read in June". BBC. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  8. ↑ "An Abbreviated Life". Kirkus Reviews. May 2, 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2005-10-29. Retrieved 2005-11-17.

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