Irwin Shaw
American writer (1913–1984)
Biography
Irwin Shaw was born in the South Bronx on February 27, 1913, and worked as a playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story writer. His written works sold more than 14 million copies. He wrote The Young Lions (1948), a novel about three soldiers during World War II that was adapted into a film starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), a novel about two brothers and a sister in the post-World War II era that became a miniseries in 1976. He died on May 16, 1984.
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Irwin Shaw is recorded as a novelist, a film producer, a playwright, a writer and a screenwriter, born in New York (1913–1984).
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