Levine published several short stories and wrote academic works focusing on the writer Edgar Allan Poe.
[1]: 104 In 1954, Levine received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa.honor society.
[1]: 104 While there, he began an interest in Edgar Allan Poe, with both his MA thesis and doctoral dissertation focusing on the writer.
[2] In 2004, Levine and his wife Susan edited a version of Poe's Eureka: A Prose Poem and published it through the University of Illinois Press.
[1]: 106 Levine was a founding member and French horn player in the Lawrence Woodwind Quintet.