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David Levien was born in New York and attended the University of Michigan. After graduating, he spent three years in Los Angeles working in the film business, and began writing screenplays and fiction. With life-long friend Brian Koppelman, Levien has worked as a screenwriter, director and producer of many feature films.
Levien is the author of five novels, including City of the Sun. He lives in Connecticut and works in New York.
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David Levien discusses City of The Sun, his first novel to feature private detective Frank Behr.
Given your success with writing screenplays what made you decide to write
another novel?
Writing novels has always been a passion of mine, and a large part of what I do.
Some stories are best told as movies, some best when they begin as a book and
end up on film. Disappearance accounts, true crime shows, and countless
newspaper articles about this kind of crime have haunted my imagination for many
years, and though I was busy with several film projects, I committed myself to
start writing. The highly plotted aspect of this, and the short sections, often
from different characters' points of view, enabled me to write in bursts, often
on the morning train I take from where I live in Connecticut to my office in
Manhattan.
Is one easier than the other?
'Easy' isn't a word I'd use for either novels or scripts. Writing a screenplay
is creating a blueprint for a future work. While the writer needs to take a
reader on an emotional journey in a script, the reader, often in the movie
business, is bringing his own expectation of the film to the table. The
screenwriter often indicates use of music, a sense of...
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