Patte Wheat LevanBorn in Los Angeles, Patte Wheat LeVan is a writer and editor. Thrust into the movie business at the age of 18 after marrying a former child actor, her writing career took off when her husband persuaded her to write a novel for him to produce. The noel Three for a Wedding was published and made into the movie Dr. You've Got to be Kidding! by MGM Studios. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including By Sanction of the Victim, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1976, and Hope for the Children, 1979. Hope received the Janusz Korczak International Literary Competition Honorable Mention Award in 1980. She served as editor of The Messenger, the national monthly publication of The Swedenborgian Church of North America, for twenty years. Read More Read Less