'''Allan Levine''' (born 1956) is a Canadian author from Winnipeg,_Manitoba, known mainly for his award-winning Non-fiction and Historical_mystery writing. As of 2004, Levine teaches history at St._John's-Ravenscourt_School in Winnipeg, and is married with two children. ==Life and works== Levine attended the University_of_Manitoba and the University_of_Toronto; he got a PhD in Canadian_history from Toronto in 1985. His graduate thesis on the grain business in Winnipeg was turned into his first book in 1987, at which point he was already teaching and freelancing as a journalist. Levine 's non-fiction work ''Fugitives_of_the_Forest'' was awarded the Yad_Vashem_Prize_in_Holocaust_History in the 1999 Canadian_Jewish_Book_Awards, and his series of Sam_Klein_Mysteries have won him a broad audience of mystery lovers. In late 2004, Levine toured Germany promoting ''Die Sünden der Suffragetten'', the German translation of his mystery ''Sins of the Suffragette''. ===Published works=== {| |width=50%| '''Non-fiction''' |width=50%| '''Historical fiction''' |- |valign=top| * ''The_Devil_in_Babylon: Fear of Progress and the Birth of Modern Life''. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2005. * ''Scattered_Among_the_Peoples: The Jewish Diaspora in Ten Portraits''¹. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2002. * ''Fugitives_of_the_Forest: The Heroic Story of Jewish Resistance and Survival During the Second World War''². Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1998. * ''Scrum_Wars: The Prime Ministers and the Media''. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1993. * ''The Exchange: 100 Years of Trading Grain in Winnipeg.'' Winnipeg: Peguis Publishers Limited, 1987. |valign=top| * ''The_Bolshevik’s_Revenge'' (A Sam Klein Mystery). Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications. Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2002. * ''Sins_of_the_Suffragette'' (A Sam Klein Mystery). Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2000. * ''The_Blood_Libel''³ (A Sam Klein Mystery). Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications Limited, 1997. |} ^'''1''' Scattered Among the Peoples (2002): Short-listed for the McNally-Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year and the Isbister Best Non-Fiction Manitoba Book of the Year
^'''2''' Fugitives of the Forest (1998): Winner of the Yad Vashem Prize in Holocaust History, Canadian Jewish Book Awards, 1999 and Short-listed for the McNally-Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year, 1998
^'''3''' The Blood Libel (1997): Shortlisted for the Chapters/Books in Canada First novel Award and the Arthur Ellis First Mystery Novel Award. ==External links== * Personal website * Bio on the Canadian Writer's Union site Levine, Allan Levine, Allan Levine, Allan Levine, Allan Levine, Allan Levine, Allan