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David Samuel Levinson

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Born

in San Antonio, Texas, The United States

May 31, 1969

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I’ve published two acclaimed novels, Tell Me How This Ends Well and Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence, and a collection of stories, Most of Us Are Here Against Our Will, received numerous fellowships from Yaddo, Jentel, Ledig House, Virginia Center for the Arts, the Santa Fe Arts Institute, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Emory University, where I was a Fiction Fellow (2013–2015). I was the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College (2008–2009) and a writer-in-residence at Texas A&M (2012–2013). My work has appeared in Hobart, Prairie Schooner, West Branch, StorySouth, The Brooklyn Review, and more.

I was first runner-up in The Flannery O’Connor Story Prize and placed third in The Atlantic Monthly’s fiction competition for my story ...more

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	Tell Me How This Ends Well 3.42 avg rating — 513 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence 3.14 avg rating — 396 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Most Of Us Are Here Against Our Will 3.98 avg rating — 57 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Possessed Us? 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Things Like That Aren't Done Around Here it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“This is the pain that will inform all other pains from now on. You have lost your mother. That is the primal pain, what we call it in German. There will never be another pain like this pain. You cannot ready yourself for it because it is unimaginable.”
― David Samuel Levinson, Tell Me How This Ends Well

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