Leon Uris (1924–2003)
Autor/a de Exodus
Sobre l'autor
Writer Leon Uris was born in Baltimore on August 3, 1924. He dropped out of school to join the Marines during World War II, but later returned to attend Baltimore City College. His first novel, Battle Cry (1953), was based on his time as a marine. He followed it with a series of New York Times mostra'n més bestsellers, including The Angry Hills, Exodus, Topaz, and Trinity. QB VII was adapted into a TV mini-series starring Ben Gazzara and Anthony Hopkins. Uris has also written non-fiction (including Ireland: A Terrible Beauty and Jerusalem: Song of Songs) and screenplays (Battle Cry and Gunfight at the O. K. Corral). He has won the John F. Kennedy Memorial Award from the Irish-American Society and the Scopus Award from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Leon Uris
[unidentified works] 3 exemplars
The Hope 1 exemplars
The Spy Catchers 1 exemplars
The Haj by Leon Uris (1998-10-05) 1 exemplars
QB VII: Volume One 1 exemplars
Armageddon, Part 2 1 exemplars
The Defection of Kuznetov 1 exemplars
Trinity - Três Famílias e a História da Irlanda 1 exemplars
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- Nom normalitzat
- Uris, Leon
- Nom oficial
- Uris, Leon Marcus
- Data de naixement
- 1924-08-03
- Data de defunció
- 2003-06-21
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Quantico National Cemetery, Quantico, Virginia USA
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Amerika
- Lloc de naixement
- Baltimore, Maryland, Amerika
- Lloc de defunció
- Long Island, New York, Amerika
- Causa de la mort
- kidney failure
- Llocs de residència
- Baltimore, Amerika
Long Island, New York, Amerika - Professions
- writer
journalist - Relacions
- Uris, Jill
- Organitzacions
- US Marine Corps(WWII)
- Premis i honors
- Harry and Ethel Daroff Award(1959)
National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant(1959)
California Literature Silver Medal Award( [1962])
California Literature Gold Medal Award(1965 ∙ for Armageddon)
Irish/American Society of New York John F. Kennedy Medal(1977)
Eire Society of Boston Gold Medal(1978) (mostra-les totes 10)
State of Israel Jobotinsky medal(1980)
Concord Academy Hall fellowship(with wife ∙ Jill Uris ∙ 1980)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Scopus award(1981)
Honorary doctorates: University of Colorado, 1976; Santa Clara University, 1977; Wittenberg University, 1980; Lincoln College, 1985[1976, 1977, 1980, 1985] - Biografia breu
- Leon Uris was a best-selling novelist known especially for doing deep research into his topics. He was a high school dropout who enlisted in the U.S. Marines at age 17 during World War II, serving in the South Pacific. His writing career began with short stories, and he published his first novel in 1953. Although not well appreciated by literary critics, his works were popular successes and introduced readers to many important social causes and historical events such as the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Membres
Converses
_Exodus_ by Leon Uris - a Group Read in May a 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (juny 2013)
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Llistes
Favourite Books (2)
Sonlight Books (1)
2015 UpROOTed (1)
Revolutions (1)
Best War Stories (1)
Tour of Ireland (1)
Premis
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 48
- També de
- 4
- Membres
- 19,284
- Popularitat
- #1,130
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 261
- ISBN
- 642
- Llengües
- 18
- Preferit
- 55