Ira Gershwin the US in 1891. Ira's siblings were George (Jacob, b. 1898), Arthur (b. 1900) and Frances (b. 1906). Morris changed the family name to "Gershwine" (or alternatively "Gershvin") well before their children rose to fame; it was not spelled "Gershwin" until later. Shy in his youth, Ira spent much of his time at home reading, but from grammar school through college he played a prominent part in several school newspapers and magazines. He graduated in 1914 from Townsend Harris High School, a public school for intellectually gifted students, where he met Yip Harburg, with whom he enjoyed a lifelong friendship
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