Leonard Hugh Levitt was an American author known for his books about crime and the New York City Police Department.
14 Facts About Leonard Levitt
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Leonard Levitt was an Edgar Award winner and worked as a Peace Corps teacher in Tanzania in the early and mid-1960s.
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Leonard Levitt was the author of An African Season about his experiences in Tanzania and as a teacher.
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Leonard Levitt grew up in the Five Towns area on Long Island.
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Leonard Levitt graduated from Lawrence Woodmere Academy and went on to study at Dartmouth College, obtaining a bachelor's degree from that institution in 1963.
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Leonard Levitt subsequently joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in Tanzania teaching English.
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Leonard Levitt wrote about his experiences as a teacher in Tanzania in the article "Tanzania: A Dream Deferred", as well as the book An African Season.
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Leonard Levitt was later employed by the Associated Press, The Detroit News, and Time.
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Leonard Levitt left the New York edition of Newsday when the paper shut down in 2005.
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Leonard Levitt launched his own blog called "NYPD Confidential", which was a continuation of his Newsday column "One Police Plaza" that he started a decade earlier.
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The book detailing his investigation of the Moxley case, Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder, which Leonard Levitt co-wrote with Frank Garr, won the Edgar Award in 2005 for best non-fiction.
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Leonard Levitt was married to Susan for 46 years.
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Leonard Levitt died on May 18,2020, at his home in Stamford, Connecticut.
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Leonard Levitt was 79, and had been suffering from lung cancer in the two years leading up to his death.