Irwin Shaw
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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🎬 Movies
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules
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1991
Beggarman, Thief
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1979
Evening in Byzantium
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1978
Two Weeks in Another Town
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1962
The Young Lions
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1958
Desire Under the Elms
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1958
Fire Down Below
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1957
Ulysses
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1954
Act of Love
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1953
The Talk of the Town
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1942
Out of the Fog
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1941
The Big Game
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1936
📖 Books
Acceptable losses
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1982
The top of the hill
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1979
Short stories
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1978
Beggarman, thief
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1976
Nightwork
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1975
Evening in Byzantium
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1973
Great Short Stories of the World
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1972
God Was Here but He Left Early
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1972
Rich Man, Poor Man
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1970
Fifty Best American Short Stories
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1965
Understanding fiction -- Second Edition
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1959
![The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6699609-M.jpg)
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
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1952
The troubled air
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1951
The Young Lions
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1943
Short Stories from the New Yorker
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1940