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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Fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction in English, American Short stories, English Short stories, Manners and customs, Short stories, World War, 1939-1945, Drama, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Social life and customs, American Civil War, American literature, Bibliography, Classic Literature, Confederate States of America, Description and travel, Families, History, History and criticism, Juvenile audience, Large type books, Mentally ill women, Middle class, MillionairesPlaces
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Colonel Sartoris, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Irwin Shaw (1913-1984), Mr. Grierson, Peyton Farquhar, Tobe, Amanda Wingfield, Bill Hutchinson, Caddy, Colonel Killigrew, Dilsey, Dr. Heidegger, Harry Graves, Irwin Shaw (1913-), Jailer, Jason, Jesus, Jim O'Connor, Laura Wingfield, Mangan's sister, Mr. Doran, Mr. Gascoigne, Mr. Lovelady, Mr. MedbourneID Numbers
- OLID: OL677865A
- ISNI: 0000000122780165
- VIAF: 32002877
- Wikidata: Q315380
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q315380
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- Ирвин Шоу
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