# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irwin-shaw
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:46:20.584Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/irwin-shaw"
name: "Irwin Shaw"
slug: "irwin-shaw"
description: "Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. 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 of the same name starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, 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 starring Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, and Susan Blakely."
tagline: "American writer (1913–1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Irwin_Shaw_(1948).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1913-02-27"
deathDate: "1984-05-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump