Jeremy Leven: the novelist-screenwriter of The Notebook, born here

1941 –

Jeremy Leven (born 1941): a name the Famous People pass left at "documented tie unresolved," settled up here on the standard biographical record. Contemporary Authors gives the birth plainly: South Bend, Indiana, 16 August 1941, son of Martin Paul, a publisher, and Marcia. The raising is printed from his own book-jacket biography — born in South Bend and raised in Rye, New York; a Chicago raising circulates in listings, and his own account governs. The education ran St. John's College at Annapolis, Harvard, and the University of Connecticut, with a fellowship at Yale Medical School, and he taught psychopharmacology before the writing took over. The novels came first — Creator (1980) and Satan's Psychotherapy — and then the screenplays, several of them adaptations of other men's bestsellers carried into films a generation remembers: Creator (1985), from his own novel; Don Juan DeMarco (1994), which he also directed; The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000); Alex & Emma (2003); The Notebook (2004); My Sister's Keeper (2009); and Real Steel (2011). His shelf stands in the Authors section's company; the entry here is compact because the tie is compact — a birth, documented at full strength — and the career is the size the record gives it. A living person; the entry states the public record.

Sources:

1. Contemporary Authors, via encyclopedia.com — the South Bend birth of 16 August 1941, the parents, the education, the psychopharmacology teaching, the novels.
2. Publisher biographies carried on his books — "born in South Bend, Indiana and raised in Rye, New York," in his own jacket account.
3. The standard filmographies — Creator (1985), Don Juan DeMarco (1994), The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), Alex & Emma (2003), The Notebook (2004), My Sister's Keeper (2009), Real Steel (2011).