Allan Levine
Allan Levine is a Canadian author from Winnipeg, Manitoba, known mainly for his non-fiction and historical mystery writing.
Life and works
Levine attended the University of Manitoba and the University of Toronto. He received a PhD in Canadian history from the University of 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 teaching and freelancing as a journalist. He is an alumnus of Camp Massad of Manitoba.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. His series of Sam Klein Mysteries followed. In late 2004, Levine toured Germany promoting Die Sünden der Suffragetten, the German translation of his mystery Sins of the Suffragette. On October 2, 2020, the University of Winnipeg announced that Levine would receive an honorary doctor of laws at the convocation on October 23, 2020.
Published works
Non-fiction
- The Dollar A Year Men: How the Best Business Brains in Canada Helped to Win the Second World War. Toronto: Barlow Books, 2025.
- Details are Unprintable: Wayne Lonergan and the Sensational Café Society Murder . Guilford, Ct: Lyons Press, 2020.
- Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2018.
- Toronto: Biography of a City. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2014.
- Miracle at the Forks: The Museum That Dares Make a Difference. Vancouver: Figure 1 Publishing, 2014. Co-authored with Peter C. Newman
- King: William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guide by the Hand of Destiny. Vancouver and Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011. Winner of the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, 2012.
- Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba. Winnipeg: Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada and Heartland Associates, 2009. Winner of the McNally-Robinson Book of the Year, 2010 and the Winner of the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for History, 2010.
- 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. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2002. Short-listed for the McNally-Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year and the Isbister Best Non-Fiction Manitoba Book of the Year
- Fugitives of the Forest: The Heroic Story of Jewish Resistance and Survival During the Second World War. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1998. Second Edition: Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2008. 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
- 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.
Historical fiction
- The Bootlegger's Confession. Winnipeg: Ravenstone, 2016.
- Evil of the Age. Winnipeg: Heartland Associates, 2008.
- The Bolshevik's Revenge. Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications. Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2002.
- Sins of the Suffragette. Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2000.
- The Blood Libel. Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications Limited, 1997. Shortlisted for the Chapters/Books in Canada First novel Award and the Arthur Ellis First Mystery Novel Award.