Janet Levine is an author, educator, and presenter. Janet has decades of published writing experience both as a book author and a freelance journalist. She is the author of five traditionally published works. For twenty-nine years (1986-2014) she taught in the English department at Milton Academy in Massachusetts. She leads workshops and presents programs internationally on the psychology of personality using the E-model. An anti-apartheid activist, she is an expert on South Africa and South African politics. The founder and leader of several successful non-profit organizations, in South Africa and the United States, Janet remains a committed activist for human rights. Please check out her website at janetlevine.com
Janet has published prolifically in magazines and professional journals over a decades long career as a writer both in the USA and her native South Africa. Her books are translated into several languages. Liv's Secrets (Armin Lear Press 2023); Reading Matters: How Literature Influences Life (Armin Lear Press 2022); Know Your Parenting Personality (Wiley 2004), The Enneagram Intelligences (Greenwood Publishing Group 1999), nominated for the 2002 Grawemeyer Education Award, Inside Apartheid (Contemporary Books 1988) and several other editions. Books reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The Boston Globe, and many other publications both paper and electronic.
Magazines and Journals: Freelance journalist with publications in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Yale Review, and, in South Africa, the only white journalist to have a column in a black newspaper, The Sowetan. Her work has appeared in many other journals and magazines. She writes book reviews for the New York Journal of Books.
Awards, and other miscellaneous information
Certification: Enneagram Professional Training Program (1994)
Awards: The Enneagram Intelligences nominated for the Grawemeyer Education Award (2001).
Writing residencies: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (x 2) and the Hambidge Center (x 2).
Fellowships: Invited fellow at the Radcliffe Intellectual Renewal Seminars for Leaders (2002, 2006, 2009)
Board Member: Arden Seminars (rtd)
Membership: Authors Guild of America, various online writers' groups, and the Southwest Florida Writers Association.