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Paul Levy (born 26 February 1941 inLexington, Kentucky) is a US/British author and journalist. He lives with his wife, art historian, Penelope Marcus, in Oxfordshire UK.
He andAnn Barr, in an article inHarpers & Queen in 1982, were the first in Britain to use the word "foodie" (some have said that he exemplified the concept). Whether they coined the word is not clear becauseGael Greene used it at almost the same moment inNew York Magazine.[1] He has won many British and American food writing and journalism prizes, including two commendations in the British Press Awards, in 1985 and 1987. He is the author of the standard work on the philosopherG. E. Moore and theCambridge Apostles and the editor of several volumes ofLytton Strachey's writings includingThe Letters of Lytton Strachey.
Levy attendedLafayette High School, Lexington;University of Chicago;University College London;Harvard (Ph.D.);Nuffield College, Oxford. His Harvard dissertation on G. E. Moore, completed in 1979, was published in the same year.
Levy wrote on food forHarpers & Queen. From 1980 he was food editor, and from 1982 food and wine editor, onThe Observer. He was subsequently arts correspondent forThe Wall Street Journal, where he reported toRaymond Sokolov, andWall Street Journal Europe. He blogs on culture at ArtsJournal.com/plainenglish, contributes obituaries to the Independent, Guardian and Telegraph, and has written many entries for The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is co-literary executor ofLytton Strachey's estate,trustee of the Strachey Trust, and Chair Emeritus of theOxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.
