Background
Levy, Paul was born on February 26, 1941 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Son of High School and Shirley (Singer) Levy Meyers.
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Levy, Paul was born on February 26, 1941 in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Son of High School and Shirley (Singer) Levy Meyers.
Levy attended Lafayette High School, Lexington, Kentucky. University of Chicago. University College London.
Harvard (Doctor of Philosophy 1979). Nuffield College, Oxford.
With Ann Barr (and synchronically Gael Greene), he coined the word "foodie" (and some say, exemplified the concept). Levy was Food and Wine editor for The Observer in the 1980s. He was subsequently arts correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, where he reported to Raymond Sokolov, and Wall Street Journal Europe.
He blogs on culture at ArtsJournal.com/plainenglish, contributes food-related pieces to Travel + Leisure, and obituaries to the Independent.
He is co-literary executor with Michael Holroyd of Lytton Strachey"s estate, trustee of the Strachey Trust, Jane Grigson Trust, and co-chair with Claudia Roden of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.
Fellow Royal Society Literature. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Circle Wine Writers, Guild Food Writers, Society. Clubs: Groucho, Wednesday.
Married Penelope Marcus, June 24, 1977. Children: Tatyana Sophie Dorothy, Georgia Natasha Alice.
