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Author Bio
Birth—1956
Rasied—California, USA
Education—B.A., University of California-Berkeley; M.A., Stanford University
Currently—lives in Bethesda, Maryland


Steven Levingston is the nonfiction editor of the Washington Post. He also writes books and plays and does some book reviewing. Most recently, he is author of Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Époque Paris (2014) and The Kennedy Baby: The Loss that Transformed JFK (2013).

Before taking on the greatest job in the world as nonfiction editor, he worked for the Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, Associated Press and China Daily, with stints in Beijing, Hong Kong and Paris. He grew up in California and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University. He now lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife and two children. (Adapted from the publisher and from the author's website.)