Paul Levy (born 26 February 1941 in Lexington, Kentucky) is a US/British author and journalist. He lives with his wife, Penelope Marcus, and children in Oxfordshire and London, UK.

With Ann Barr (and synchronically Gael Greene), he coined the word "foodie" (and some say, exemplified the concept). He has won many British and American food writing and journalism prizes, including two commendations in the national British Press Awards, in 1985 and 1987. Dr. Levy is known not merely for his learning and exquisite wit and taste, but also for his developed comic sense of life.

Education

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Levy attended Lafayette High School, Lexington, KY; University of Chicago; University College London; Harvard (Ph.D. 1979); Nuffield College, Oxford University.

Work experience

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Levy was Food and Wine editor for The Observer in the 1980s. He was subsequently arts correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, where he reported to Raymond Sokolov, and Wall Street Journal Europe. He is co-literary executor with Michael Holroyd of Lytton Strachey's estate, trustee of the Strachey Trust, Jane Grigson Trust, and the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.

Publications

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• ed. The Letters of Lytton Strachey (2005)
• ed. Eminent Victorians, The Definitive Edition (2002)
• The Penguin Book of Food and Drink (1996)
• The Feast of Christmas (1992) and writer and presenter of 5-part Channel Four network/ABC (Australia)/CBC (Canada) TV series with same title
• Finger-Lickin' Good: A Kentucky childhood (1990)
• Out to Lunch (1986)
• co-author with Ann Barr: The Official Foodie Handbook (1984)
• co-ed. with Michael Holroyd
• The shorter Strachey, 1980
• Moore: G.E. Moore and the Cambridge Apostles (1979)
• ed. Lytton Strachey: The Really Interesting Question (1972)

External links

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• www.paullevy.com

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