Meyer Levin was a Chicago-born Jewish author. His best-known book is "Compulsion," which is a novelization of the notorious Loeb and Leopold murder case of 1924. Levin was in a special position to tell the story, because he was personally acquainted with the perpetrators. Levin is also famous for bringing Anne Frank's diary to light. But "The Old Bunch" may be his greatest work.
"The Old Bunch" was written in the mid-1930's, and it tells the tales of the kids of a Chicago Jewish ghetto coming of age and stepping out into the world. It's presumably something of a fantasy autobiography,...
Meyer Levin was a Chicago-born Jewish author. His best-known book is "Compulsion," which is a novelization of the notorious Loeb and Leopold murder...
