Ira Gershwin English-language programs to primarily Hispanic and Chinese Americans. Ira and his younger brother George spent many after-school hours at the Settlement. The George and Ira Gershwin Collection is at the Library of Congress Music Division. The Edward Jablonski and Lawrence D. Stewart Gershwin Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin holds a number of Ira's manuscripts and other material. In 2007, the United States Library of Congress named its Prize for Popular Song after him and his brother George. Recognizing the profound and positive effect of American popular music on the world's
Ira Levin with Sharon Stone, William Baldwin and Tom Berenger; and "Son of Rosemary" (1997), the sequel to "Rosemary's Baby". Stephen King has described Ira Levin as "the Swiss watchmaker of suspense novels, he makes what the rest of us do look like cheap watchmakers in drugstores." Chuck Palahniuk, in "", calls Levin's writing "a smart, updated version of the kind of folksy legends that cultures have always used." Levin was married and divorced twice, first to Gabrielle Aronsohn (1935-2014), then to Phyllis Sugarman (died 2006), and had 3 sons, Adam, Jared, and Nicholas (from the first marriage), as well as 4