Writing

Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw is vooral bekend van Rich Man, Poor Man, Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II, Богач, бедняк... en Playhouse. Irwin Shaw werd geboren op 27 februari 1913. Irwin Shaw overleed op 16 mei 1984 op 71-jarige leeftijd.

Geboren: 27 februari 1913
Geboorteplaats: The Bronx, New York, USA
Overleden: 16 mei 1984 (71 jaar)

Biografie

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 (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,[1] which in 1976 was made into a popular miniseries starring Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, and Susan Blakely.