

It was followed by The Stepford Wives in 1972 and Boys from Brazil which was his final novel. In 1967 Ira Levin's third novel was published, This Perfect Day, which is a novel about a futuristic world controlled by computers. It was made into a film starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes. It is a hair-raising fictitious account of modern devilry and witchcraft. His second novel, Rosemary's baby, was published in 1964. He wrote his first novel in 1952, the crime novel A Kiss before Dying, which was an immediate public success.


Ira Levin was born in 1929 in New York City, where he still lives and has raised three sons. The murderer, Bud Corliss, pretends to love his victims before he kills them.
