Irwin Shaw

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Irwin Shaw (1948)

Irwin Shaw (born February 27, 1913 in New York City , † May 16, 1984 in Davos , Switzerland ; actually Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff ) was an American writer and screenwriter .

Life

Shaw came from a Russian-Jewish family from the Bronx who moved to Brooklyn after his birth and changed Shamforoff's family name to Shaw. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. While in college, he was already writing for the college newspaper and began writing scripts for radio novels such as Dick Tracy in 1935 .

His first play, Bury the Dead , premiered in 1936. He wrote other plays for the left-wing Group Theater . He wrote some screenplays for Hollywood in the 1940s . During the Second World War he served as a special officer in North Africa and Europe (France, England, Germany). About this experience he wrote his first novel The Young Lions ( The Young Lions ), who published in 1948 and 1958 with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift was filmed. He had lived in Switzerland since the early 1950s, where he died of heart failure in Davos in 1984.

In Germany, his most successful novels appeared in the 1970s when they were made into a film for television: Rich and poor and evening in Byzantium .

Works (selection)

Novels

  • The Young Lions (1948) - The young lions
  • The Troubled Air (1951) - The Conspiracy
  • Lucy Crown (1956) - Lucy Crown
  • Two Weeks in Another Town (1960) - Two weeks in another town
  • Voices of a Summer Day (1965) - Voices of a summer day
  • Rich Man, Poor Man (1970) - All the riches in the world
  • Evening in Byzantium (1973) - Evening in Byzantium
  • Nightwork (1975) - The Lord gives his own in their sleep
  • Beggarman, Thief (1977) - End in Antibes
  • The Top of the Hill (1979) - Reaching for the Stars
  • Bread Upon the Waters (1981) - The Benefactor
  • Acceptable Losses (1982) - To Life and Death

Short stories

  • Strawberry ice cream soda (1938)
  • Sailor off the Bremen (1939)
  • The Girls in Their Summer Dresses (1939) - Girls in summer dresses
  • Welcome to the City (1942) - Welcome to the big city
  • Act of Faith (1946)
  • Mixed Company (1950)
  • Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)
  • Love on a Dark Street (1965) - love on dark streets
  • God Was Here, but He Left Early (1973) - God was here, but he's gone again
  • Short Stories: Five Decades (1978) - In Review and 26 other collected narratives

Plays

  • Bury the Dead (1936)
  • Victories (1937)
  • The Gentle People (1939)
  • Quiet City (1939)
  • Retreat to Pleasure (1940)
  • The Shy and the Lonely (1941)
  • Sons and Soldiers (1944)
  • The Assassin (1946)
  • The Survivors (1948) together with Peter Viertel
  • Children from Their Games (1963)

Non-fiction

  • In the Company of Dolphins (1964)
  • Paris! Paris! (1977)

Filmography (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Shaw, Irwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shamforoff, Irwin Gilbert (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1984
Place of death Davos