Richard Michael Levine has been writing fiction and poetry in the new millennium. Before that, he wrote magazine articles for many national publications, including Harper’s, Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, New York, The New York Times Magazine, and Esquire, where he was a contributing editor and wrote a monthly column on the media for a number of years.  

He has been a staff writer and editor at Newsweek and The Saturday Review, received an Alicia Patterson fellowship, and has taught at the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.  

His bestselling non-fiction book, Bad Blood: A Family Murder in Marin County, was published by Random House and the Penguin Group and has been translated into several languages. 

Born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 19, 1942, he moved to Great Neck with his family when he was five. He received his BA in Literature from Wesleyan Univeristy in 1963, and his MA in Slavic Languages and Literature from the Russian Institute at Columbia University in 1966.