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Mia Shaffer
Allan Levine
BIO
Biography

Allan Levine was born and raised in Winnipeg. He attended the University of Manitoba receiving a bachelor of arts (1977) and a certificate in education (1983), and also received a MA (1979) and PhD (1985) in history from the University of Toronto. From 1984 to 2012 he taught history and world issues at St. John’s-Ravenscourt School in Winnipeg.

As of 2021, he has written sixteen books including Details are Unprintable: Wayne Lonergan and the Sensational Café Society Murder (2020); Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience (2018) which was longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize; Toronto: Biography of City (2014); King: William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny (2011), which won the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction; and Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba (2009), which won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award.

For the past ten years, he has written the column “Now & Then” for the Winnipeg Free Press, which looks at the history behind major news issues. His articles and reviews have also appeared in the Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, Maclean’s and Canada’s History magazine, among other publications.

He is married with two married children and four grandchildren.

ADDRESS
City: Winnipeg, Province/Territory: Manitoba
EMAIL
GENRE
Non-Fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Details are Unprintable: Wayne Lonergan and the Sensational Café Society Murder
Publisher
Lyons Press
Year
2020
Title
Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Year
2018
Title
Toronto: Biography of City
Publisher
Douglad & McIntyre
Year
2014
Title
King: William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny
Publisher
Douglas & McIntyre
Year
2011
Title
Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba
Publisher
Heartland Associates
Year
2009
Title
The Devil in Babylon: Fear of Progress and the Birth of Modern Life
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Year
2005
Title
Scattered Among the Peoples: The Jewish Diaspora in Ten Portraits
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Year
2002
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction
Publication
King: William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny
Year
2012
Name
McNally Robinson Book of the Year; Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for History
Publication
Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba
Year
2010
Name
Yad Vashem Prize in Holocaust History
Name
Canadian Jewish Book Awards
Publication
Fugitives of the Forest: The Heroic Story of Jewish Resistance and Survival During the Second World War
Year
1999
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