From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Levien is an American screenwriter, novelist, director, and producer. Best known as the co-writer of Ocean's Thirteen, and Rounders Levien has also produced films such as The Illusionist and The Lucky Ones. As a novelist, he has published City of the Sun and Where the Dead Lay with Random House. Levien studied at the University of Michigan. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Levien, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia