
Person
Jeremy Leven
Writing · South Bend, Indiana, USA
Biography
Jeremy Leven (born 1941) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist. Born in South Bend, Indiana, Leven lives in Woodbridge, Connecticut, Nantucket, and Paris. Leven was educated at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, Harvard University, the University of Connecticut and Yale University Medical School. While at Harvard he founded a satirical revue called The Proposition that ran for ten years in Cambridge, Massachusetts and off-Broadway. Leven's first novel, Creator, was published in 1980 and released as a film of the same title in 1985. Leven is a practicing clinical psychologist, a theme incorporated in his second novel, "Satan, His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S., which was published in 1982 and filmed as Crazy as Hell in 2002. Leven wrote and directed Don Juan DeMarco (1995), wrote and produced Alex & Emma (2003), and wrote the screenplays for The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) and The Notebook (2004). His screenplay for The Time Traveler's Wife was in production in 2007. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeremy Leven, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for

The Notebook
Screenplay

Real Steel
Story

My Sister's Keeper
Screenplay

The Legend of Bagger Vance
Screenplay

Don Juan DeMarco
Director

Girl on a Bicycle
Director

Creator
Novel

Alex & Emma
Writer

Playing for Keeps
Writer

Wer's glaubt wird selig
Screenplay
Filmography
- 2013Girl on a BicycleDirector
- 2012Wer's glaubt wird seligScreenplay
- 2011Real SteelStory
- 2009My Sister's KeeperScreenplay
- 2004The NotebookScreenplay
- 2003Alex & EmmaWriter
- 2002Crazy As HellScreenplay
- 2000The Legend of Bagger VanceScreenplay
- 1994Don Juan DeMarcoDirector
- 1986Playing for KeepsWriter
- 1985CreatorNovel
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