American writer
Marcia Lauter Obrasky Levin (October 29, 1918 – April 18, 2006) was a children's book author, sometimes using the pen name of Marcia Martin. She was creator of the Donna Parker series, as well as 22 books for beginning readers, and some of the first enrichment textbooks about the New Math"."
Biography.
Levin was born and raised in Philadelphia, the daughter of Abraham N. Obrasky and Elizabeth Lauter Obrasky. Her father was a dentist. She graduated from Overbrook High School. She married writer, publisher, and lawyer Martin Levin in 1939. They had three children, including writer Jeremy Leven, publisher Hugh Lauter Levin, and psychologist and academic dean Wendy Newby. She lived in Rye, New York for 56 years. She died in Sarasota, Florida, in 2006, at the age of 87.
Publications.
The "Chicago Tribune" praised Levin and Bendick's "Take Shapes, Lines, and Letters" (1962) as "a dandy introduction to the world of mathematics without numbers."
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