Meyer Levin (October 7, 1905 - 1981) - Levin  began is career in journalism working for the Chicago Daily News as reporter and quickly graduated up to columnist. He wrote 15 books during his career, most notably The Old Bunch and Compulsion. Levin covered WWII as a foreign correspondent for several outlets, where he witnessed the liberation of several concentration camps. Immediately following the war, Levin directed the influential documentary The Illegals. Levin's book Compulsion, about the Leopold and Lobe case, is credited with starting the genre known as the nonfiction novel. The book was later turned into a popular play and movie. Levin was one of the first to read and champion the Diary of Anne Frank, and the first to turn it into a play. A series of events led to his play being spurrned and another version winning the Pulitzer. Levin was devastated by these events and never found peace on the issue. The last years of Levin's life were spent in Isreal where he wrote several more books, including The Architect.