Edward M. Levy
Editing, Writing
Education, Social Science, Philosophy, Self-Help, Health,
Religion & Spirituality
Professional Associations:
A professional editor for over thirty years, Edward Levy has edited books for Doubleday, Random House, Princeton University Press, Macmillan, Paulist Press, Prentice-Hall, SUNY Press, Scholastic, Scholars Press, Praeger, Solution Tree Press, and many other publishers and private individuals.
His projects have received publishing and professional awards. For over seventeen years, he worked in-house as a senior editor focusing on developmental and substantive editing.
With a strong academic background, degrees from Brandeis and Columbia Universities, and experience teaching at both secondary and college levels, Ed is at home in the social sciences and humanities.
“Thank you for your fine work on this project. You did much to improve the writing, and the author has every reason to be grateful to you.”
—Princeton University Press
Ed has edited important works of religious scholarship.
In the area of general nonfiction, he has worked in a variety of genres, including biography, public affairs, spirituality, and memoir.
Many nonnative English speakers have turned to him to perfect their English written expression.
Recognition for Books Edited
2022 Book Fest Award WinnerWhere Are You? A Beginner’s Guide to Advanced Spirituality |
2021 Living Now Book Awards WinnerThe Hidden Gifts of Addiction |
2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards FinalistThe Hidden Gifts of Addiction |
2021 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short-List FinalistChildhood Canceled |
2021 Next Generation Book Awards FinalistChildhood Canceled |
2020 Nautilus Book Award WinnerThe Hidden Gifts of Addiction: The Direct Path to Recovery |
2014 LEARNING Magazine Teacher’s Choice AwardBuilding a Culture of Hope: Enriching Schools With Optimism and Opportunity |
2014 REVERE Award nominationWhat Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Writing |
2013 Silver INDIEFAB Award for Education and 2014 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year nominationFrom Tired to Inspired: Fresh Strategies to Engage Students in Literacy |
2013 Independent Publisher’s Book Award (IPPY)Breaking Through: Effective Instruction & Assessment for Reaching English Learners |
2011 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational PublishersBoys in Poverty: A Framework for Understanding Dropout |
2009 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year AwardWhy Culture Counts:Teaching Children of Poverty |
1990 V. O. Key Award of the Southern Political Science AssociationBlacks and Social Change: Impact of the Civil Rights Movement on Southern Communities |
Recently Published
Where Are You? A Beginner’s Guide to Advanced Spirituality
—Dan Ehrenkrantz
Winner of the Book Fest 2022 Award for Spirituality: Inspirational
“Ed, it’s a much better book than I would have been able to create on my own. Thank you!”
—Dan Ehrenkrantz
Critical Therapy: Power and Liberation in Psychotherapy
—Silvia M. Dutchevici
“Healing, mental health, and wellness cannot be achieved independent of political realities.”
—Silvia M. Dutchevici
A Crisis Like No Other: Understanding and Defeating Global Warming
—Robert DeSaro
“Ed Levy’s review of both my manuscript and book proposal improved each in ways that I missed and I doubt would have ever realized.”
—Robert DeSaro
A Perfect Storm in the Amazon: Success and Failure in the Fight to Save an Ecosystem of Critical Importance to the Planet
—Timothy Killeen
I am pleased to be editing this deeply informative book, which is being released serially as an open source publication available here.
Praise from Clients
2020 Nautilus Book Award Winner and Indie Book Awards Finalist
“Thank you for your encouragement, wisdom, and gift with the pen. This book would not have flowered without you.”
—Victor Bucklew, Ph.D.
The Hidden Gifts of Addiction: The Direct Path of Recovery
“I would like to express my extreme gratitude to Edward M. Levy for his thoughtful review and critique of the manuscript. He provided masterly judgment and peerless editorial skills to substantially enhance the message and the presentation.” —Edward T. Burns
Nuclear Power: Or a Promise Lost
“I have read through the manuscript and I am very satisfied with the work. Thank you for all your support.” —Brahima Diallo
Far From Home: An African Son in the Promised Land
“I’d like to thank my extraordinary editor Ed Levy, who in addition to editing Childhood Canceled, provided emotional support as I revisited the past and redrafted and revised the chapters.” —Mishka Migacz
Childhood Canceled
"It looks great . . . exactly what I needed. Thank you for your work on this." —Prof. Brian Wolf
Good Trouble: How Deviants, Criminals, Heretics, and Outsiders Have Changed the World for the Better
"Ed’s review was spot-on! His knowledge of the subject area was deep and useful. He gave me excellent recommendations to fill in gaps and enhance marketability. Forcing me to review and make hard decisions for my book was more valuable than any syntax or comma fix he did (and he did those edits very well, too)." —Pat Edwards
Exploring the Magic of Your Hero's Journey
"Ed Levy, the editor, reshaped my less than adequate English, as well as the structure of the text, into a much higher standard. I also appreciated his emotional involvement in the book's subject matter, which did not interfere with his uncompromising criticism when he felt the text did not express my intent clearly and precisely."
—Ivan Fuchs, MD
The Evolutionary Mechanisms of Human Dysfunctional Behavior
“I’m rushing to get this to the FedEx office but want to thank you for the wonderful editing job. The manuscript is very much improved!" —Prof. James Button
Blacks and Social Change: Impact of the Civil Rights Movement in Southern Communities
"I found Ed to be clear, insightful, adaptable and altogether a pleasure with whom to work. He adroitly sliced and diced, which is what I needed, but he never cut out any of the meat." —Mark Van Clay
Aligning School Districts as PLCs
"A really fine job in respecting the authors intentions (a skill that I have found rare . . .) while at the same time catching the problems that needed correction. He also did a terrific job in unifying footnote style. . . We are grateful." —Edith Wyschograd et al., editor
Lacan & Logical Discourse