Irwin Shaw

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American writer (1913-1984)

United States WritersLived 1913 to 1984 · aged 71

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Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.

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Shaw in his CUNY years, c. 1933

Awards 3

1981Lucien Barrière Literary Award

1978Lucien Barrière Literary Award

1944O. Henry Award

Connected to Irwin 6

Jackie JacksonAlso in Easy Living (1949)

Sam WaterstonAlso in Three (1969)

Anthony PerkinsAlso in Desire Under the Elms (1958)

Silvana ManganoAlso in This Angry Age (1957)

Carlo PontiAlso in Ulysses (1954)

William PowellAlso in Take One False Step (1949)

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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.

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