Meyer Levin

Anne Frank case
Levin was one of the first American journalists to become aware of the existence of Anne Frank's diary and he was also one of the first people to recognize the literary and dramatic potential of this document; he wrote the book review which appeared on the front page of the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Compulsion was "the first 'documentary' or 'non-fiction novel' ("a style later used in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song"). Judaica
Beginnings in Jewish Philosophy
The Story of Israel
An Israel Haggadah for Passover
The Story of the Synagogue
The Story of the Jewish Way of Life


See also
Gabriel Levin.

Meyer Levin (October 7 1905 – July 9 1981) was a Jewish-American novelist known for works on the Leopold and Loeb case and the Anne Frank case.