Irwin Shaw Summary

Biography EssayIrwin Shaw was born in New York City, the son of William Shaw, a salesman of hat trimmings, and Rose Tompkins Shaw. When he was very young the family moved to the Sheepshead Bay section... Read more

Irwin Shaw is one of the most frequently anthologized twentieth-century American short-story writers. Over the years, such Shaw stories as "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses", "The Eighty-Yard Run", ... Read more

Critical Essay by Joseph Wood Krutch ["Bury the Dead"] is based on a conceit of originality and power. Six men just laid in their new dug graves by a weary detachment of fellow-soldiers... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Gilman We shed our sicknesses in our books, D. H. Lawrence wrote, but there are novelists like Irwin Shaw who seem able only to restate their maladies in each successive wor... Read more

Critical Essay by Christopher Lehmann-haupt Michael Storrs, the hero of Irwin Shaw's … novel, "The Top of the Hill," can't seem to adapt himself…. Despite th... Read more

Critical Essay by Ross Wetzsteon [With] 10 of his 11 novels having appeared on the best-seller list, and with his new novel, Bread Upon the Waters, headed there in the fall …, Irwin Shaw has c... Read more

Critical Essay by Evan Hunter [In "Bread Upon the Waters," Irwin Shaw details] the burdens of limitless bounty, the temptations of accepting overwhelming generosity, the attempts to kee... Read more

Critical Essay by Gould Cassal New York City's Borough of Brooklyn has been for so long a subject of literary and vaudeville humor that it is pleasant to find Irwin Shaw defending it in severa... Read more

Critical Essay by Howard Barnes Irwin Shaw has written a semi-documentary melodrama in "The Assassin." His [play] … sticks to facts with reasonable authority as it celebrates the... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Gorham Davis Irwin Shaw is a moral writer who conceives moral problems simply, feels them deeply, and dramatizes them with an often terrifying historical relevance. As a resu... Read more

Critical Essay by Milton Rugoff [The plight of liberals] in a period whose chief contribution to politics is the smear, guilt by association, conviction without hearing and loyalty by threat is the g... Read more