Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shaw (Feb 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. . His first play, Bury the Dead (1936), has become an anti-war classic. H
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Irwin Shaw (Feb 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. . His first play, Bury the Dead (1936), has become an anti-war classic. He went on to write several more plays, more than a dozen screenplays, two works of nonfiction, dozens of short stories (for which he won two O. Henry awards), and twelve novels. He is best known for two of his novels: The Young Lions (1948), about the fate of three soldiers during World War II, which was made into a film, and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), about the fate of two brothers and a sister in the post-World War II decades which in 1976 was made into a popular miniseries.
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