Role Author Name Michael Levin | Nationality American | |
Education Columbia University, Amherst College Books Where there's smoke - th, The Complete Idiot's Gui, Complete Idiot's Guide to, The Complete Idiot's Gui, What every Jew needs to know a |
Michael Levin (born August 8, 1958) is an American business executive and New York Times best-selling author. On January 20, 2012, Michael appeared as a guest entrepreneur on the ABC Television show Shark Tank. Levin is the CEO of BusinessGhost, Inc., a ghostwriting firm that has written and published 550 books, including 18 national best sellers.
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Reviews and publications
Levin’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Forbes.com,Legal Affairs Writers Digest, Time Newsweek The Economist and other outlets. One of Levin’s New York Times pieces was anthologized in a textbook on writing, Elements of Argument. In September 2012, Levin became a regular blogger on the future of book publishing and also arts and culture for the Huffington Post. In 2016, he began to contribute to Fox News and the New York Daily News. He has also published five of his own novels, three with Simon & Schuster and two with Putnam/Berkley.
Levin’s books have received positive reviews in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New Yorker, People Magazine, the Washington Post, the The San Francisco Chronicle, Library Journal, the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications.
BusinessGhost
BusinessGhost, a provider of ghostwritten business books, business fables, and memoirs, began as the Michael Levin Writing Company in 1994, became Writer2Author, Inc. in 1998, and reincorporated with its current name 2004 when ghostwriting became the primary function of the company.
Through his company, Levin has worked with many celebrities and top athletes including Pat Summerall, Chad Hennings, Howard Bragman, Dave Winfield and Doug Christie. Many of Levin’s books have been optioned and/or made into films by some of the top names in Hollywood. Disney optioned and made the ABC Disney Sunday Movie of the Week “Model Behavior” based on Levin’s novel Janine and Alex, Alex and Janine. Additionally, director Frank Perry adopted Levin’s first novel, The Socratic Method, and Steven Soderberg and Paramount adopted the book Levin coauthored with Joaquin Garcia, Making Jack Falcone. He also edited Zig Ziglar’s final book, Born To Win.
Personal life
He performs with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is an Amherst College graduate, a Columbia Law School-trained attorney and a non-practicing member of the Massachusetts bar. He served for many years as a member of the Authors Guild Council and as Treasurer of the Authors Guild Foundation.
A distance athlete, Michael has completed more than a dozen triathlons and half marathons, and 15 full marathons since his 44th birthday. He ran as a guide runner for disabled runners for Achilles International in the 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2015 New York City Marathons and in the 2013 Los Angeles Marathon.