Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
List of works by or about Irwin Shaw, American author. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (December 2022) Novels.
In 1934, shortly after Shaw graduated from Brooklyn College, he visited a former professor, David Driscoll Driscoll, who had admired Shaw’s writing when his student was an undergraduate, suggested he seek work with Himan Brown, a radio producer. Desperate for work to support his parents and his younger brother, Shaw, age 21, took a position ...
"The Eighty-Yard Run" is a work of short fiction by Irwin Shaw, originally published in Esquire (January 1941) and first collected in Welcome to the City and Other Stories (1942) by Random House. [ 1 ]
Rich Man, Poor Man is a 1969 novel by Irwin Shaw.It is the last of the novels of Shaw's middle period before he began to concentrate, in his last works such as Evening In Byzantium, Nightwork, Bread Upon The Waters and Acceptable Losses on the inevitability of impending death.
The stories in Shaw's first two collections of fiction focus on the working class who suffered in the aftermath of the panic of 1929 and the devastating effects of the Great Depression. [ 6 ] Shaw's themes in Welcome to the City are largely those of the political Left in the United States at this time—identifying capitalism as a system ...
"The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" is a work of short fiction by Irwin Shaw, originally published in The New Yorker in 1939 and first collected in Sailor off the Bremen and Other Stories (1939) by Random House.
[17] James R. Giles writes that thematically, the works of fiction in Act of Faith do not encompass reconciliation with those who carried out the orders of the Nazi Party leadership. In "Retreat," Shaw dramatizes an encounter between a German officer of the defeated Weimar army who is fleeing Paris, and a Partisan Jew who has managed to survive ...