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Ken Levine

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brooklyn, The United States

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Fiction, Ebooks, Young Adult

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Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, I currently reside in Bergen County, New Jersey with my wife and three children. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s with its disparate neighborhoods with characters that literally spill out of its Irish bars, Italian restaurants, bowling alleys, sprawling apartment complexes, gritty public schools, and mom and pop shops has provided rich material for my novels. Conflict was never far away with working class white neighborhoods abutting minority enclaves as people tried to figure out how to move forward after the tumult of the 1960s.

I’ve always loved telling stories and wanted to be an author ever since I was a child. As an English major, I wrote short stories and poetry into my twenties but didn’t tak ...more

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Average rating: 4.06 · 161 ratings · 27 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Healers 4.31 avg rating — 94 ratings — 3 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
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	North of Nowhere 4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2014 — 3 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
	The Widow Verses 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings — 3 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

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