Irwin Shaw (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Irwin Shaw wrote novels, plays, screenplays, nonfiction books, articles, and short stories. His novels The Young Lions (1948) and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970) and his plays Bury the Dead (1936) and Sons and Soldiers (1943) are well known and received critical acclaim. “Out of the Fog,” “Act of Faith,” “Tip on a Dead Jockey,” Two Weeks in Another Town (1960), and The Young Lions have been filmed. Rich Man, Poor Man was the television miniseries believed by some critics to have launched America’s...

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