Links:

    -FAN SITE: Meyer Levin Official Homepage
    -WIKIPEDIA: Meyer Levin
    -FILMOGRAPHY: Meyer Levin (IMDB)
    -FILM INFO: Compulsion (1959) (IMDB)
    -OBITUARY: MEYER LEVIN, WRITER, 75, DIES; BOOKS INCLUDED 'COMPULSION' (HERBERT MITGANG, July 11, 1981, NY Times)
    -COURT DECISION: NATHAN F. LEOPOLD, Jr., Appellant, v. MEYER LEVIN et al., Appellees. No. 41498. (SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS 45 Ill. 2d 434, 259 N.E. 2d 250 (1970))
    -REVIEW: of 'The Diary of a Young Girl' by Anne Frank (Meyer Levin, 6/15/52, NY Times)
    -ESSAY: Re-writing "Anne Frank" - A distorted legacy (Jonathan Tobin, 2/22/98, Jewish World Review)
    -AUDIO: Meyer Levin’s Anne Frank: A controversial radio play of the famous diary—rejected in 1952 as too Jewish—gets a second airing (Vox Tablet|September 14, 2012, The Tablet)
    -Leopold & Loeb (Famous American Trials, UMKC)
    -ESSAY: Leopold and Loeb Still Fascinate 90 Years Later (Jake Hinkson, 10/19/12, Criminal Element)
    -ESSAY: Did Anne Frank Really Have An ‘Infinite Human Spirit’? (Ruth Franklin, 3/09/11, New Republic)
    -ESSAY: Is Boston Like Columbine?: Were the Tsarnaev brothers a “dyad” like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, with a charismatic leader and submissive follower? (Dave Cullen, April 2013, Slate)
    -ARCHIVES: "meyer levin" (NY Times)
    -REVIEW: of Compulsion by Meyer Levin (David Karp, Saturday Review)
    -REVIEW: of Compulsion (Jewish Books)
    -REVIEW: of Compulsion (Publishers Weekly)
    -REVIEW: of Compulsion (Existential Ennui)
    -REVIEW: of The Architect by Meyer Levin (Daniel Fuchs, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of The Fanatic by Meyer Levin (Stanley Kauffman, NY REview of Books)
    -REVIEW: of Martin Litvin, Audacious Pilgrim. The Story of Meyer Levin. (William L. Urban, Audacious Review)
    -REVIEW: of AN OBSESSION WITH ANNE FRANK Meyer Levin and the Diary. By Lawrence Graver (Frank Rich, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of AN OBSESSION WITH ANNE FRANK Meyer Levin and the Diary By Lawrence Graver (Richard Bernstein, NY Times)

Mr. Graver carefully and honestly chronicles the 30 years that Levin spent living in heated obsession over the "Diary of Anne Frank," an obsession that began in 1952, when Levin's stage adaptation of the diary was rejected by a Broadway producer, and ended only with the author's death in 1981. Along the way, it involved a number of episodes that make for painful and fascinating reading, most notably a bitter, destructive, doleful conflict between Levin and Otto Frank, Anne's father and literary executor. Given that Levin's books are almost forgotten these days, it is a melancholy thought that the obsession described by Mr. Graver is the part of Levin that will be most clearly remembered.

    -REVIEW: of Obsession with Anne Frank Ian Buruma, NY Review of Books)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Meyer Levin’s ‘Obsession’ : Two current plays look at the writer’s quest to dramatize Anne Frank’s diary. (Ted Merwin, 2/15/11, The Jewish Week
    -REVIEW: of Compulsion [stage play] (SYLVIANE GOLD, NY Times)
    -REVIEW: The story of the diary of Anne Frank: Rinne Groff's Compulsion tells the tale of Meyer Levin, the writer whose evangelical zeal for Anne Frank turned to bitter infatuation. (Albert Williams, Chicago Reader) FILM:

    -WIKIPEDIA: Compulsion (film)
    -REVIEW: of Compulsion (Rob Nixon, TCM)