Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw
Shaw in 1948
Born	Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff (1913-02-27)February 27, 1913 The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Died	May 16, 1984(1984-05-16) (aged 71) Davos, Switzerland
Occupation	Playwright screenwriter novelist
Notable works	Bury the Dead (1936) The Young Lions (1948) Rich Man, Poor Man (1969) Beggarman, Thief (1977)
Notable awards	O. Henry Award (1944, 1945) National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant (1946) Playboy Award (1964, 1970, 1979) Honorary Doctorate, Brooklyn College
Spouse	Marian Edwards (1916–1996)
Website
irwinshaw.org

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.