Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Rowboat to Prague by Alan Levy Alan Levy, at 72; American founded Prague newspaper. PRAGUE -- American journalist and author Alan Levy died Friday in Prague, according to the English-language newspaper where he was the founding editor in chief. He was 72. Mr. Levy died after "a brief and courageous battle with cancer," The Prague Post said in a statement. He was born in New York City in 1932. After studies at Brown University and Columbia University, where he earned a master's degree in journalism, he won The New Republic's 1957 Young Writer Award for his coverage of the Cuban revolution. Mr. Levy spent seven years in Kentucky as a reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal before freelancing in New York City for seven years. He and his family moved to Prague in 1967, and he reported on the Russian-led invasion the following year. Mr. Levy captured the events of 1968 in a book called "Rowboat to Prague," published in 1972 and rereleased in 1980 as "So Many Heroes ." His 1974 book "Good Men Still Live!" also deals with the Prague Spring and its aftermath. Czech communist authorities expelled Mr. Levy from the country in 1971. He settled in Vienna, the capital of neighboring Austria, where he worked for publications that included the International Herald Tribune, Life, and New York Times Magazine. After the peaceful revolution led by Vaclav Havel toppled communist rule, Mr. Levy returned to what was then Czechoslovakia in 1990 and helped establish The Prague Post as its editor in chief one year later. Mr. Levy was working as an editor and columnist for the weekly until his death. PCL MS 072 Alan Levy Collection. The Alan Levy Collection consists of approximately 32.5 linear feet of manuscript materials. The collection was donated to the Browne Popular Culture Library by Alan Levy beginning in 1967. This collection is unprocessed, but may be accessed by contacting the archivist. The collection has no restrictions placed on its use for scholarly purposes. Researchers are responsible for securing copyright permission when using all unpublished manuscripts and published works found in this collection. In 1967, Levy relocated his family to Prague, Czechoslovakia. There he covered the Soviet invasion of the country, leading to the book Rowboat to Prague . He and his family were exiled from the country in 1971 and settled in Vienna, Austria. From Vienna, he continued to freelance for many American magazines as well as European newspapers. Notable subject and correspondents include members of The Beatles, Richard Nixon and his associates, Fidel Castro, and Elvis Presley. Also present are the typwritten versions of the news stories Levy wrote for the Louisville Courier-Journal on a regular basis. OBITUARY : Alan Levy, 72, writer who chronicled Prague Spring. Alan Levy, a longtime contributor to the International Herald Tribune and founding editor in chief of The Prague Post, died Friday after a brief battle with cancer, the Prague newspaper announced. He was 72. Levy, an American, was first posted to Prague in 1967 and chronicled the Prague Spring reforms and ensuing Warsaw Pact invasion of 1968 in a book published in the United States in 1972 as "Rowboat to Prague." It was republished in 1980 as "So Many Heroes." In 1975 the book was translated into Czech by 68 Publishers Toronto, owned by Josef and Zdena Skvorecky, and smuggled via visiting émigrés into Czechoslovakia, where it became an underground classic. It was subsequently translated into many other languages. The Communist authorities expelled Levy and his family in 1971, and they took up residence in Vienna, where he wrote for numerous international publications. He and his wife, Valerie, returned to Prague in 1990, shortly after the Velvet Revolution that swept the Communists from power. In 1991, he was hired by the owners of The Prague Post as editor-in-chief to help start the newspaper, an English-language weekly. Levy continued to contribute to The Post in his roles as editor and columnist until his death. His weekly column, "Prague Profile," provided in-depth, personal looks at people, both Czechs and foreigners, who made an impact on the country he had made his home. In the first issue of The Prague Post on Oct. 1, 1991, he wrote, "We are living in the Left Bank of the '90s. For some of us, Prague is Second Chance City; for others a new frontier where anything goes, everything goes, and, often enough, nothing works. Yesterday is long gone, today is nebulous, and who knows about tomorrow, but, somewhere within each of us, we all know that we are living in a historic place at a historic time." Levy, who wrote the story of the Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal in the 1993 book "The Wiesenthal File," was born in New York City on Feb. 10, 1932. He was a graduate of Brown University and the Columbia University School of Journalism. Levy, winner of The New Republic's 1957 Young Writer Award, spent 14 years reporting and writing in Kentucky and New York before moving to Prague. Rowboat to Prague by Alan Levy ISBN 13: 9780670609208. Try adding this search to your want list. Millions of books are added to our site everyday and when we find one that matches your search, we'll send you an e-mail. Best of all, it's free. Are you a frequent reader or book collector? Join the Bibliophile's Club and save 10% on every purchase, every day — up to $25 savings per order! Social Responsibility. Did you know that since 2004, Biblio has used its profits to build 16 public libraries in rural villages of South America? Hang on… we're fetching the requested page. 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In 1952, at Brown, he co-wrote an original Brownbrokers musical titled Anything Can Be Fixed with Gill Bach and Porter Woods. In addition, he worked seven years as a reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal in Kentucky. Later on, he spent seven years in New York as journalist writing for Life magazine, The Saturday Evening Post , the New York Times and others. Among personalities he interviewed were W. H. Auden, the Beatles, Fidel Castro, Graham Greene, Václav Havel, Sophia Loren, Vladimir Nabokov, Richard Nixon and Ezra Pound. In 1967, Alan Levy moved to Prague with his family, to collaborate on an American version of a musical by Jirí Šlitr and Jirí Suchý. Shortly after, he covered the Prague Spring and the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, and chronicled the events in Rowboat to Prague , which was published in the United States in 1972. Josef and Zdena Skvoreckys’ Toronto publishing house, 68 Publishers, translated the book into Czech in 1975, which has been smuggled to Czechoslovakia where it became one of the underground classics. It was republished in 1980 as So Many Heroes and translated into numerous languages..