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Biographies (3)

3,929 words, approx. 14 pages
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
2,270 words, approx. 8 pages
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, ... Read more
5,848 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", ... Read more