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Joel David Levin

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Born

in Ojai, CA, The United States

Website

https://www.notsosilentlibrarian.com/

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Fiction, Young Adult, Music

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John Steinbeck Stephen King Nick Hornby ...more

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January 2019

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J.D. Levin is a mild-mannered librarian by day… and a mild-mannered rock & roller by night. He has worked as a public school educator for almost two decades – first as an English teacher, then as a Teacher Librarian.

Outside of the classroom, he’s written songs for/with Far From Kansas, the Briar Rose Ramblers, Kailua Moon, and Grammy-nominated slack-key guitarist Danny Carvalho.

Levin is a graduate of UC Berkeley (BA ‘01), Stanford University (MA ‘02), CSUN (MA ‘09), and CSULB (TLSC ‘15).

He lives on the central coast of California with his wife, two daughters, and cluttered collection of musical instruments. Incomplete is his first novel.

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Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World

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