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Lisa Levy

Lisa Levy is working on a book-length cultural history of biography. She lives in Brooklyn.

Able to reap buildings in a single bound. Author Alain de Botton sees personality in architecture. (AP/Hiroko Masuike)

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Lisa Levy

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Lisa Levy