Books
March, 1968
Meyer Levin has had an instructive literary career. He has become an expert in the fine art of the comeback. After a strong beginning a generation ago with The Old Bunch, a landmark novel in the Depression mode of Chicago realism, he suffered the doldrums until writing his autobiography, In Search, which no major American publisher would print. Nevertheless, this history of a self in quest of meaning found a new audience for Levin. Then came his great popular success, Compulsion--book and play a...
