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'''Irwin Shaw''' (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) 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 (novel)|The Young Lions]]'' (1948), about the fate of three soldiers during [[World War II]], which was made into [[The Young Lions (film)|a film of the same name]] starring [[Marlon Brando]] and [[Montgomery Clift]], and ''[[Rich Man, Poor Man (novel)|Rich Man, Poor Man]]'' (1970), about the fate of two brothers and a sister in the post-World War II decades,<ref name="previously unmentioned sister, Gretchen" /> which in 1976 was made into [[Rich Man, Poor Man (miniseries)|a popular miniseries]] starring [[Peter Strauss]], [[Nick Nolte]], and [[Susan Blakely]].
== Personal life ==
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=== Novels and miniseries ===
''[[The Young Lions (novel)|The Young Lions]]'', Shaw's first novel, was published in [[1948 in literature|1948]]. Based on his experiences in Europe during the war, the novel was very successful and was adapted into a 1958 [[The Young Lions (film)|film]]. Shaw was not happy with the film, feeling it soft-pedaled some of the serious issues from his book, but it did well at the box office.
In 1950 Shaw published ''Report on Israel'', a journalistic book dealing with the situation in the state around the time of its founding with photographs by [[Robert Capa]]''.''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hauzer |first=Katarzyna |date=2013 |title=So This Is Peace? The Postwar Ventures by John Steinbeck, Irwin Shaw, and Robert Capa |journal=Ad Americam: Journal of American Studies |volume=14 |pages=51–62 |doi=10.12797/AdAmericam.14.2013.14.04 |issn=1896-9461|doi-access=free }}</ref>
Shaw's second novel, ''[[The Troubled Air]]'', chronicling the rise of [[McCarthyism]], was published in [[1951 in literature|1951]]. He was among those who signed a petition asking the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] to review the [[John Howard Lawson]] and [[Dalton Trumbo]] convictions for [[contempt of Congress]], resulting from hearings by the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]]. Accused of being a [[communist]] by the [[Red Channels]] publication, Shaw was placed on the [[Hollywood blacklist]] by the movie studio bosses. In 1951 he left the United States and went to Europe, where he lived for 25 years, mostly in Paris and Switzerland. He later claimed that the blacklist "only glancingly bruised" his career. During the 1950s he wrote several more screenplays, including ''[[Desire Under the Elms (film)|Desire Under the Elms]]'' (based on [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s play) and ''Fire Down Below'' (about a tramp boat in the [[Caribbean]]).
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While living in Europe, Shaw wrote more bestselling books, notably ''[[Lucy Crown]]'' ([[1956 in literature|1956]]), ''Two Weeks in Another Town'' ([[1960 in literature|1960]]), ''[[Rich Man, Poor Man (novel)|Rich Man, Poor Man]]'' ([[1970 in literature|1970]]) (for which he would later write a less successful sequel entitled ''[[Beggarman, Thief]]'') and ''Evening in Byzantium''<ref>https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/irwin-shaw-8/evening-in-byzantium/ Retrieved November 24, 2023.</ref> (made into a [[Evening in Byzantium|1978 TV movie]]).
''Rich Man, Poor Man'' was adapted into a [[Rich Man, Poor Man (TV miniseries)|highly successful ABC television miniseries]] with six 2-hour episodes shown for February 1 to March 15, 1976.
His novel ''The Top of the Hill'' (1979) was made into a TV movie about the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid in 1980, starring [[Wayne Rogers]], [[Adrienne Barbeau]], and [[Sonny Bono]].
His last two novels were ''Bread Upon the Waters'' (1981), a realist novel dealing with the socioeconomic conditions of 20th century New York,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Raičević |first=Svetlana |title=Hleb povrh vode |publisher=Beogradski izdavačko-grafički zavod |year=1987 |isbn=86-13-00192-0 |pages=521–525 |language=sh |trans-title=Bread Upon the Waters |chapter=Beleška o piscu |trans-chapter=Biographical note}}</ref> and ''Acceptable Losses'' (1982).
=== Short stories ===
Shaw was highly regarded as a short story author, contributing to ''[[Collier's Weekly|Collier's]]'', ''Esquire'', ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[Playboy]]'', ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'', and other magazines; and 63 of his best stories were collected in ''Short Stories: Five Decades'' (Delacorte, 1978), reprinted in 2000 as a 784-page University of Chicago Press paperback. Among his noted short stories are: "Sailor Off The Bremen", "The Eighty-Yard Run", and "Tip On A Dead Jockey". Three of his stories ("[[The Girls in Their Summer Dresses]]", "The Monument", "The Man Who Married a French Wife") were dramatized for the [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] series ''[[Great Performances]]''. Telecast on June 1, 1981. This production was released on DVD in 2002 by Kultur Video.
=== Awards ===
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=== Novels ===
* ''[[The Young Lions (novel)|The Young Lions]]'' (1948)
* ''[[The Troubled Air]]'' (1951)
* ''[[Lucy Crown]]'' (1956)
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* [[Michael Shnayerson]]. ''Irwin Shaw, A Biography.'' G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1989. illustrated. {{ISBN|0-399-13443-3}}
*{{cite web|author=Vince Keenan |url=http://blog.vincekeenan.com/2012/01/book-nightwork-by-irwin-shaw-1975.html |title=Book Review: Nightwork, by Irwin Shaw (1975) |publisher=Blog.vincekeenan.com |date=January 9, 2012 |access-date=December 11, 2013}}
* Irwin Shaw, "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses."
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