Elizabeth Levy

{{short description|American novelist}} {{distinguish|text=Élisabeth Lévy}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox writer  |image = | | name = Elizabeth Levy | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|4|4|mf=y}} | birth_place = Buffalo, New York, U.S. | occupation = {{Plainlist}} *Author *Artist {{endplainlist}} | period = 1973–present | genre = Children's and Young Adult Literature | subject = | movement = | influenced = | signature = | website = {{URL|www.elizabethlevy.com/}} }}

'''Elizabeth Levy''' (born April 4, 1942) is an American author who has written over eighty children's books in a variety of genres.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/04apr/4-4levy.html |title=Birthday bios: Elizabeth Levy |accessdate=March 10, 2010 |publisher=Children's Literature Network |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718151906/http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/birthbios/brthpage/04apr/4-4levy.html |archivedate=July 18, 2011 }}</ref> Born in Buffalo, New York, she is currently living in New York City. She has appeared as a contestant on ''Billy on the Street'' on TruTV. Her cousin is children's author Robie Harris.

==Writing career== She has written a long-running series of mystery novels for youngsters under the ''Something Queer is Going On'' banner (''Something Queer at the Library, Something Queer at the Haunted School,'' etc.). She is also responsible for the ''Horrible Histories'' spin-off series ''America's Funny But True History''. Levy wrote several novelizations of the ''Star Wars'' episode ''Return of the Jedi''.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}}

==Selected works== *''Something Queer is Going On'', with Mordicai Gerstein (illustrator), (1973), Delacorte Press, {{ISBN|978-0385289597}} – first in the ''Something Queer'' series *''Nice Little Girls'' (1974), Delacorte Press, {{ISBN|978-0-440-06207-3}} *''The Computer That Said Steal Me'' (1983), Scholastic, {{ISBN|0-590-32636-8}} *''Keep Ms. Sugarman in the Fourth Grade'', with Dave Henderson (illustrator) (1992), HarperCollins, {{ISBN|978-0-06-020426-6}} *''Cheater, Cheater'', (1993), Scholastic, {{ISBN|978-0-590-45865-8}} *''School Spirit Sabotage: A Brian and Pea Brain Mystery'', George Ulrich (Illustrator), George M. Ulrich (Photographer), (1994), HarperCollins, {{ISBN|978-0-06-023407-2}} *''My Life as a Fifth-Grade Comedian'', (1997), HarperCollins, {{ISBN|978-0-06-026602-8}} *''Seventh Grade Tango'', (2000), Hyperion Books for Children, {{ISBN|978-0-7868-0498-6}} *''Who are you Calling a Woolly Mammoth?: Prehistoric America'', Daniel McFeeley (illustrator), J.R. Havlan (additional material), (2000), Scholastic, {{ISBN|978-0-590-12938-1}} – first in the ''America's Funny But True History'' series *''Danger & Diamonds: a mystery at sea'', Mordicai Gerstein (illustrator), (2010), Roaring Brook Press, {{ISBN|978-1-59643-462-2}} *''Paula Danziger's Amber Brown is Tickled Pink'', Bruce Coville (co-author), Tony Ross (illustrator), Paula Danziger (inspiration), (2012), G. P. Putnam's Sons, {{ISBN|978-0-399-25656-1}} – a continuation of Danziger's ''Amber Brown'' series.

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==External links== {{Portal |Children's literature}} * {{official website}} * {{LCAuth|n78091251|Elizabeth Levy|90|}}

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