Faye Levine

Faye Levine (18 January 1944 – 18 November 2014) was an American writer and feminist. She was the first woman to serve as the executive editor of the Harvard Crimson.

Early life and Harvard Faye Iris Levine was born on 18 January 1944 in Stamford, Connecticut, the daughter of Bernard Harold Shulman (died 1954) and Lillian Haft. Her surname came from her adoptive father, Seymour Levine, who her mother married in 1955. Levine also spent a year living in India as a Fulbright scholar, where she taught English while living on a houseboat.

Levine became "famous overnight at Harvard" for her 1963 article "The Three Flavors of Radcliffe". In 1982, introducing Levine's 1965 essay "The girls who go to Harvard", The Harvard Book, wrote:Among Harvard people of both sexes who go back to the mid-60s, Faye Levine is famed for three things. She was the first woman executive editor of the Harvard Crimson, she wrote a much quoted article on "the three flavors of Radcliffe," and she ran a bold, spectacular, unsuccessful campaign for marshal of the Harvard Class of 1965. Levine became a fellow of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Solomon and Sheba (1980), was adapted for the stage and had a limited run off-Broadway.