"Times were hard and toys were few, but I remember from a very early age constant trips to the library with my mother and brother, and the smell and feel of books." He even tried his hand at writing. His first story, he explains in
Speaking for Ourselves, was completed at age eight. In high school he began writing poetry and served as editor of the school newspaper's poetry column. In college, however, Levoy's interests led him into chemical engineering. He received bachelors and masters of science degrees from the City College of New York and Purdue University, and he had a successful career as a chemical engineer.
Levoy continued to write even during his engineering days, publishing poetry and short stories in the Massachusetts Review, the Antioch Review, and in the New York Quarterly. In 1967, his first play, The Penthouse Perspective, was produced in Newport, New York. The following year Levoy published his first novel, A Necktie in Greenwich Village, a story about college students during the revolutionary "youth decade" of the 1960s. It tells about Brian Benson, a senior at Princeton University (a prim Ivy League school) and the choices facing him as he nears graduation.
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