Joining ASCAP in 1965, he wrote the popular gospel song "He Touched Me" with his chief musical collaborator Milton Schafer. The story concerns Joanna Eberhart, a talented photographer, wife and young mother who suspects that something in Stepford's environment is changing the wives from free-thinking, intelligent women into compliant wives dedicated solely to homemaking. He went on to write several plays, including the longest-running Broadway mystery to date, "Deathtrap" (1978), and several popular novels, including "A Kiss Before Dying", and other plays including "Critics Choice" and "Interlock" and the Broadway stage score and libretto for "Drat the Cat!". The Stepford Wives Hardcover Januby Ira Levin (Author) 2,100 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 31.10 40 Used from 1.90 9 New from 31.07 4 Collectible from 22.99 Paperback 12.99 69 Used from 2.56 33 New from 8. The Stepford Wives is a 1972 satirical 'feminist horror' novel by Ira Levin. He made a bright theatre debut at the age of 25 with an adaptation of Mac Hyman's "No Time for Sergeants" (1955). Based in Queens, New York, he wrote and produced training films for Uncle Sam before moving into television, penning scripts for such anthology series as Lights Out (1946) and The United States Steel Hour (1953). Educated at the elite Horace Mann school, he went on to two years at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, before transferring to New York University, where he majored in philosophy and English. Author, playwright and composer Ira Levin decided on a career of a writer at the age of 15.
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