Bio

Steven Levingston is a former senior editor of The Washington Post and the former nonfiction book editor of the Post’s Book World. He is author of Barack and Joe: The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership; Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor and the Battle Over Civil Rights; Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Époque Paris; The Whiz Kid of Wall Street’s Investment Guide; and Historic Ships of San Francisco. He has lived and worked in Hong Kong, New York, Paris, and Washington and reported and edited for the Wall Street Journal and International Herald Tribune. He served for a year in Beijing as a journalism adviser at China Daily, an English-language newspaper published by the Chinese government. Levingston has worked as a reporter for the Associated Press in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He’s been featured on the PBS NewsHour, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, C-SPAN, and in the Netflix documentary Amend. His work has appeared in TIME, The Washington Post Magazine, The New Yorker, Reader’s Digest, The Boston Globe Magazine, and the presidential project at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. As a playwright, he has had readings of his plays, Before Oscar Was Wilde at The Kennedy Center and the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, Three Seconds of Haydn at the Baltimore Playwrights Festival and a production of Hypnotic Murderess at the Venus Theater in Laurel, Maryland. He founded and directed the business journalism program at Boston University.