Creator

jeremy leven

A Nobel Prize-winning biologist attempts to re-create his late wife by implanting her clone into a 19-year-old nymphomaniac. And that's only part of the story. Dr. Harry Wolper, an aging Noble Prize-winning biologist, is attempting to create life-specifically, to re-create his adored late wife by implanting her clone in a loving but reluctant 19-year-old nymphomaniac, and do it before his conventional son can have him committed to an asylum. Creator is a love story, a comedy, a zany account of science running amok, and a moving and tragic account of our biological and imaginative limitations and the struggle we wage against them. Creator was turned into a feature film starring Peter O'Toole and Mariel Hemingway.

Genres fictionscience fictionfantasy

496 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1980

This edition

Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Published: August 1, 2001 by Iuniverse Inc
ISBN: 9780595179619
ASIN: 0595179614
Language: English

About the author

jeremy leven

Born in South Bend, Indiana and raised in Rye, New York, Jeremy Leven was educated at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland (Philosophy and other liberal arts), Harvard University (Education and Child Psychology), the University of Connecticut (Neuroscience) and Yale Medical School where he was a fellow in the Yale University Department of Psychiatry's Child Study Center. He has also been a member of the faculty of Harvard, a Professor of Psychopharmacology, Director of a Mental Health Center, and Director of Drug Treatment and Methadone Programs for Western Massachusetts.

Leven has written two critically-acclaimed novels, published in 17 languages: Creator (Coward McCann) and Satan's Psychotherapy (Knopf), as well as the screenplays for The Notebook, Creator, The Legend of Bagger Vance, My Sister's Keeper, Real Steel, and Wers Glaubt Wird Selig, among others. He also directed and wrote Don Juan DeMarco, and Girl On A Bicycle.

Leven divides his time between homes in Connecticut and Manhattan. His wife of 41 years, the acclaimed psychotherapist Roberta Danza, died in 2017. They have five grown children and four grandchildren.