Marc Levy (born 16 October 1961) is a French novelist.
Career
Levy was born in
Boulogne-Billancourt
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,
Hauts-de-Seine
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, and studied management and computers at
Paris Dauphine University
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.
In the late 1990s, Levy wrote a story that his sister, then a screenwriter, encouraged him to send to Editions Robert Laffont, who immediately decided to publish ''
If Only It Were True
''If Only It Were True'' (french: Et si c'etait vrai...) is the first novel by the French author Marc Levy. It was released in 1999 by Éditions Robert Laffont, and was translated into English the following year. The novel has been adapted into ...
''. Before it was published,
Steven Spielberg
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( DreamWorks) acquired film rights to the novel. The movie, '' Just like Heaven'', produced by Steven Spielberg, and starring
Reese Witherspoon
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and
Mark Ruffalo
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, was a #1 box office hit in America in 2005.
After ''If Only It Were True'', Marc Levy began writing full-time.
Levy was first married at the age of 26; he had a son, the inspiration for ''If Only It Were True''. He is married and lives in New York City.An Interview with Marc Levy, France’s Widest Read Author Anne McCarthy, July 7, 2017 ''www.francetoday.com'', accessed 25 February 2021
Bibliography
* ''
If Only It Were True
''If Only It Were True'' (french: Et si c'etait vrai...) is the first novel by the French author Marc Levy. It was released in 1999 by Éditions Robert Laffont, and was translated into English the following year. The novel has been adapted into ...
'', 2000 (adapted for film in 2005)
* ''Finding You'', 2001 (adapted for television in 2007)
* ''Seven Days for an Eternity'', 2003
* ''In Another Life'', 2004
* ''
Vous revoir ''Vous revoir'' is a 2005 romantic novel by Marc Levy. It is meant to serve as a sequel to his first novel '' If Only It Were True'' (''Et si c'était vrai...'').Kate Deimling * ''Hope'', AmazonCrossing, 2021, trans. Hannah Dickens-Doyle
Filmography
* ''La tortue sur le dos'' (1978) - Gus, le voyageur
* ''L'amour dure trois ans'' (2011) - Himself
Short film
* ''La Lettre de Nabila'' directed for Amnesty International, adapted from a short story he co-wrote with Sophie Fontanel.La Lettre de Nabila Un Court-métrage de Marc Lévy, 2004 ''www.unifrance.org'', accessed 27 February 2021