Irwin Shaw
American writer (1913-1984) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 71
Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.
Irwin Shaw is read about 187 times a day, in 36 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.
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Carlo Ponti Produced Ulysses and War and Peace- Robert Parrish Directed Fire Down Below and In the French Style
Mario Camerini Directed Ulysses (1954)
Kirk Douglas Irwin wrote Ulysses and Act of Love
Anthony Perkins Irwin wrote This Angry Age (1957)
Silvana Mangano Irwin wrote Ulysses (1955)
George Stevens Directed The Talk of the Town (1942)
Dino De Laurentiis Produced War and Peace (1956)
John Houseman Produced Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
Lloyd Bridges Irwin wrote The Talk of the Town (1942)
Delbert Mann Directed Desire Under the Elms (1958)
Albert R. Broccoli Produced Fire Down Below (1957)
May Britt Irwin wrote The Young Lions (1958)
Vito Scotti Directed Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
Don Beddoe Also in The Talk of the Town and Easy Living
Elmo Williams Directed The Big Gamble (1961)
George Macready Also in Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
Art Baker Also in Easy Living and Take One False Step
Jess Hahn Irwin wrote Act of Love and The Big Gamble
Charles Schnee Also in Easy Living (1949)- Ivo Perilli Also in Ulysses and War and Peace
Chester Erskine Directed Take One False Step (1949)- Irving Allen Produced Fire Down Below (1957)
Arūnas Žebriūnas Directed Rich Man, Poor Man... (1982)
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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.
