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Name: Irwin Shaw
Birth Date: 27 February 1913
Death Date: 16 May 1984

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Biography of Irwin Shaw
5,893 words, approx. 20 pages
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", "Act of Faith", and "Main Currents of American...
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Biography of Irwin Shaw
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Irwin 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 of Brooklyn, where he attended local schools and developed a...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Irwin Shaw Information
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Irwin Shaw (February 27 1913 – May 16 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist who was also a highly regarded short story author. He was born Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff in the South Bronx, New York City, to Russian-Jewish...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Irwin Shaw: The Failure Of Success
08/06/1989: 1,118 words, approx. 4 pages
IRWIN SHAW A Biography By Michael Shnayerson Putnam. 447 pp. $22.95 IT'S STILL the same old story. A young American writer makes a startling, prodigious debut and immediately reaps the pleasures of early success: money, fame, connections. His work pours forth at a...
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National Review
Beware of Greeks.(author's encounters with novelists James Jones and Irwin Shaw)
10/23/1995: 928 words, approx. 3 pages
An author who was in Paris, France, in 1972 wrote articles from time to time for National Review. He recounts an amusing anecdote about the time he tricked James Jones into granting him an interview. He also discusses his friendship with Irwin Shaw. ...
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AP News
Kurt Vonnegut tops in public's heart
11/16/2007: 775 words, approx. 3 pages
Within the past year, three of the most famous authors to emerge after World War II have died: Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut and William Styron. Their deaths all resulted in front-page stories, lengthy appreciations and ongoing discussions about their place in American letters.No writer was...
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AP Features
Obituaries in the news, 1st Ld-Writethru.
12/2/2007: 897 words, approx. 3 pages
Rassim al-JumailiBAGHDAD (AP) — Rassim al-Jumaili, a veteran Iraqi comedian who left his homeland for Syria after the U.S. invasion and played a sarcastic dictator in his final role earlier this year, died Saturday, a colleague said. He was 69.Al-Jumaili died in neighboring Syria, where...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Ross Wetzsteon
1,763 words, approx. 6 pages
[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 come to represent big bucks and bad books. The unexamined consensus among the quality controllers of American literature is that Shaw was an exceptionally gifted short-story writer who published a promising first novel and then betrayed his promise. According to the official line, with his laconically pointed dialogue, his controlled tough-guy l...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Wood Krutch
711 words, approx. 2 pages
["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 rise slowly to their feet and with quiet persistence refuse to submit to the final indignity—dirt on their faces. They are dead all right. There is no doubt about that. But they won't be buried and they won't lie still no matter how anxious the living may be to have them covered, and forgotten, and quiet at last. The men order...
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Critical Essay by Robert Gorham Davis
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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 result, once met, his stories stay in the mind…. [The stories collected in "Act of Faith and Other Stories"] were written during the war about the war, but they cannot be taken retrospectively as an account of what has been. One finds, re-reading them in a period of unreal, unstable peace, that they gain in meaning, in the power to ...
 


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