Paul E Levy

Paul Levy (born 26 February 1941 in Lexington, Kentucky) is a US/British author and journalist. He lives with his wife, art historian, Penelope Marcus, in Oxfordshire UK. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1980. He and Ann Barr, in an article in Harpers & Queen in 1982, were the first in Britain to use the word "foodie"—whether they coined the word is not clear because Gael Greene used it at almost the same moment in New York Magazine. He has won many British and Amer…