Ira Levin 'The Exorcist,' 'The Omen.' A whole generation has been exposed, has more belief in Satan. I don't believe in Satan. And I feel that the strong fundamentalism we have would not be as strong if there hadn't been so many of these books [...] Of course, I didn't send back any of the royalty checks." Other Levin novels that were made into films included "The Boys from Brazil" in 1978, and "The Stepford Wives" in 1975 and again in 2004. In the 1990s, Levin wrote two more bestselling novels: "Sliver" (1991) which became a film in 1993 by Phillip Noyce,
Meyer Levin plagiarism. Meyer wrote the 1956 novel "Compulsion", inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case. The novel, for which Levin was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America in 1957, was the basis for Levin's own 1957 play adaptation and the 1959 film based on it, starring Orson Welles. "Compulsion" was "the first 'documentary' or 'non-fiction novel' ("a style later used in Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" and Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song""). Meyer Levin Meyer Levin (October 7, 1905 – July 9, 1981) was an American novelist. Perhaps best known for his work on the Leopold