Albert Norman Levine (October 22, 1923 – June 14, 2005) was a Canadian short story writer, novelist and poet who spent most of his adult life in England.
Though he was part of the St. Ives artistic community in Cornwall, and friends with painters Patrick Heron and Francis Bacon, his written expression was not abstract, but concrete.
His Jewish family had fled from Poland to Canada with the advent of anti-Semitism in the years prior to World War II.
He then moved to England, ostensibly to pursue a PhD at King's College, London, which was never completed.
The book negative portrayal of Canada provoked controversy there, and McClelland & Stewart refused to publish a Canadian edition, as had been originally planned.