Irwin Shaw: Difference between revisions

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.