Shaw, Irwin
Shaw, Irwin( 1913–84),Brooklyn-born writer whose works are marked by dramatic intensity and social awareness. His plays include Bury the Dead (1936); Siege (1937); The Gentle People (1939); Retreat to Pleasure (1940); Sons and Soldiers (1944), about a woman dreaming of the life of her unborn son; The Assassin (1944), set in World War II; and Children from Their Games (1963), a comedy. His novels are The Young Lions (1948), tracing the fortunes of two American soldiers, one a Jew, the other a Gentile, and of the Nazi who kills the first and is killed by the second; The Troubled Air (1951), about radio actors harried by flimsy charges of Communist sympathies; Lucy Crown (1956), about a middle-aged woman's romance; Two Weeks in Another Town (1960); Voices of a Summer Day (1965), a middle-aged man's bittersweet memories; Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), the stories of...
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