Mark Levi

Marc Levy (French: Marc Levy) was born on October 16, 1961, in Boulogne, France. At the age of eighteen, he joined the Red Cross organization and three years later was appointed regional director of the Western Department of Emergency Relief in Paris. In all, he worked there for six years. At the same time, Levy entered Paris Dauphine University. At the end of 1983, while a second-year student, he founded his first company, Logitec France. The following year he went to the United States, where he created two companies specializing in computer graphics, one in California and the other in Colorado. In 1988, Marc became the founder and head of a computer imaging studio at the Sophia Antipolis university complex, located near Cannes in France. However, in 1990 he left the studio because of disagreements with his colleagues. He was twenty-nine years old at the time. It was 1991. He had to start all over again, in a completely unfamiliar field. Together with two friends, an architect and an engineer, Marc co-founded a company specializing in interior design and architectural projects. They combined architecture, technology, and engineering, and over the next few years their company, Eurythmic-Cloiselec, became one of France’s leading architectural firms. They designed and carried out more than 500 projects. It is enough to say that their clients included such companies as Coca-Cola, Perrier, Evian, Norton, Canal Plus, and the magazine L’Express. Levy took up the pen rather late, at the age of forty, and not by chance. Long evenings before bedtime, he had to tell his son Louis various stories. Gradually, Marc became accustomed to inventing stories, and there arose a need to put what he had imagined on paper. Throughout 1998, Marc Levy devoted all his free time to the manuscript he titled If Only It Were True, published in Russian as Between Heaven and Earth. It was a story he had invented for his son. And at the beginning of 1999, Marc’s sister, a screenwriter by profession, strongly advised him to send the manuscript to the publishing house Robert Laffont. Just eight days later he received notice that his work would be published. The novel became a bestseller. It impressed readers with its unusual plot and the power of feelings capable of working miracles. Later, Marc Levy left the architectural