Victor Levenstein was born in the Soviet Union in 1922. He immigrated with his family to the USA in 1980 and at the age of 58 started a successful career in the new country. He worked at Jeffey-Dresser in Columbus Ohio from 1980 until 2003, designing underground mining machinery and receiving three American patents. After retiring from the engineering job, Victor wrote and published two books in Russian: Thirteen Nasty Little Snakes and the recently published The Case of Stalin's Assassins. He lives in Columbus Ohio with his wife of 61 years, Dora. His son Matvey Levenstein and daughter-in-law Lisa Yuskavage are both artists living in New York City.