Wanda Marie Urbanska

Author, journalist

Born Jan. 17, 1956, South Bend (IN), U.S.; daughter of Edmund and Marie (Olesen); married Frank Levering.

Education: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), 1978.

Career: associate editor, The Paris Review, New York City, 1978-79; editor and reporter, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 1980-83; free-lance writer, 1983 -.

Author: The Singular Generation: Young Americans in the 1980s, 1986; co-author, Official Secrets, 1990, Simple Living, 1992; numerous articles in: New Woman, McCall's, Shape Magazine, Vogue, Glamour, Rotarian, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune.

Member of: chairman, Citizens Against Pollution (VA), 1989-90; Mt. Airy (NC) Rotary Club; All - American City delegate for Mt. Airy, 1994.

Honors: Lloyd Eliot visiting prof., University of Maine, 1991.

Hobbies: swimming, travel, antiques.

Home: Route 2, Box 310, Ararat, VA 24053.

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996.