June Levine

June, the eldest of five children, was baptised a Catholic and attended a Jewish school in Dublin.

[1] At the age of 15, Levine began her career in journalism for The Irish Times as a teenager instead of pursuing further education.

In the 1950s, the married couple and their two children emigrated to Ontario, Canada, where they settled, and a third baby was born.

In 1999, June Levine married her partner of thirty years, psychiatrist Professor Ivor Browne.

In 2009 Attic Press reissued her book Sisters with a preface written by Levine's friend Nell McCafferty.