Ronald Levitsky

Ronald Levitsky (born 1949 in Chicago?) is an American mystery author and educator best known for his 4-volume series of legal thrillers featuring civil liberties lawyer Nate Rosen. He handles sensitive cases involving racism, religious fundamentalism, and Native American rights across the United States. Nate Rosen is often described as an “affirmative Jewish protagonist” who struggles with his identity as a Jew while defending complex or controversial figures, including anti-Semites and murderers. His Jewishness is a central lens through which he views justice and morality. Levitsky’s stories often explore the intersection of traditional Jewish thought—such as the dilemma between existence and justice—and contemporary legal issues. Though primarily a legal thriller writer, he has also addressed his own identity as a descendant of Holocaust survivors in his later public life, discussing how the survivor experience and anti-Semitism informed his worldview and desire to write about human rights and social justice. [Google/AI]

Levitsky, Ronald [Nate Rosen #1] (The Love that Kills [hc, Scribner,1991] 978-0684192956 [pb, Berkley, 1993] 978-0451403742

Levitsky, Ronald, (The Wisdom of Serpents [hc, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992] 978-0684194110

Levitsky, Ronald, (Stone Boy [hc, Scribner, 1993] 978-0684195544

Levitsky, Ronald [Nate Rosen #2], (The Truth that Kills/re-release of the Wisdom of Serpents [mass mkt pb, Onyx, 1994]) 978-0451404015

Levitsky, Ronald [Nate Rosen #3], (The Spirit that Kills/re-release of Stone Boy [mass mkt pb, Onyx, 1995]) 978-0451405401

Levitsky, Ronald [Nate Rosen #4], (The Innocence That Kills) [hc, Scribner, 1994] 978-0684197074 [pb, independently published, 2018] 978-1717875839