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Irwin Shaw (1913–1984)

Author of Rich Man, Poor Man

Includes the names: I. Shou, Irin Shaw, Irvin Shou, Shaw Irwin, Irvin SHou, Irwin Shaw, Irving Shaw, ארוין שו, Ирвин Шоу, Ирвин Шоу ... (see complete list), Ъруин Шоу, Ирвин Шоу.

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Rich Man, Poor Man 831 copies, 9 reviews
The Young Lions 597 copies, 12 reviews
Beggarman, Thief 423 copies, 2 reviews
Bread Upon the Waters 276 copies, 5 reviews
Short stories, five decades 200 copies, 1 review
Nightwork 189 copies, 4 reviews
Acceptable Losses 176 copies, 4 reviews
Evening in Byzantium 167 copies, 1 review
Top of the Hill 160 copies, 1 review
Lucy Crown 113 copies, 2 reviews
Two Weeks in Another Town 104 copies, 3 reviews
Paris! Paris! 95 copies
Voices of a Summer Day 77 copies, 1 review
The Troubled Air 77 copies, 3 reviews
God Was Here but He Left Early 44 copies
The Young Lions [1958 film] (Writer) 35 copies, 5 reviews
Tip on a Dead Jockey 34 copies
Paris/Magnum, photographs 1935-1981 34 copies
The Talk of the Town [1942 film] (Screenwriter) 30 copies, 1 review
Ulysses [1954 film] (Screenwriter) 28 copies
Love on a Dark Street 22 copies
In The Company of Dolphins 20 copies, 3 reviews
Mixed Company 20 copies
Selected short stories 19 copies
Wings Bestsellers Fiction: Irwin Shaw: Three Complete Novels 18 copies
Bury The Dead. 18 copies, 3 reviews
Four Complete Novels: Rich Man Poor Man / Beggarman Thief / Evening in… 12 copies
Report on Israel 12 copies
Retreat 11 copies
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses 9 copies
Act of Faith and Other Stories 8 copies
Rich Man, Poor Man and Beggarman, Thief: In One Volume 7 copies
The Gentle People 7 copies
Rikas rakas.....menestyksen maku 2 7 copies
Sailor Off the Bremen 5 copies
Whispers in Bedlam. Three Novellas. Whispers in Bedlam. Small Saturday.… 5 copies
Welcome to the city and other stories 5 copies
The Eighty-Yard Run 5 copies
Le bal des maudits - tome 2 - the young lions 4 copies
Pogoda dla bogaczy. 1 4 copies
Child from Their Games 4 copies
Pogoda dla bogaczy Tom III 3 copies
Short Stories Of Irwin Shaw 3 copies
Fire Down Below [1957 film] (Writer) 3 copies
The Day The War Ends 3 copies
Collected Fiction: The Young Lions, Bread Upon the Waters, Short Stories:… 3 copies, 1 review
Small Saturday 3 copies
Pogoda dla bogaczy. 2 3 copies
Short Stories of Irwin Shaw Sixty- Eight Stories By a Modern American… 2 copies
Homem Rico, Homem Pobre, vol I 2 copies
Voor de eerlijke vinder 2 copies
Le bal des maudits volume 1 2 copies
Suttogás a sötétben 2 copies
Main Currents of American Thought 2 copies
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and other stories 2 copies
Tomu málo, tomu nic 2 copies
Lucy Crownová 1 copy
Szus 1 copy
O Regressado da Morte 1 copy
ZENGIN VE YOKSUL 2 1 copy
Retreat and Other Stories. 1 copy
O Pobre homem rico 1 copy
ZENGIN VE YOKSUL 1 copy
Dopuszczalne straty 1 copy
LEMBRANÇAS DE UM DIA DE VERÃO 1 copy
Medal from Jerusalem 1 copy
Полное собрание рассказов. 1957-1973 1 copy
Полное собрание рассказов. 1940-1950 1 copy
the book 1 copy
Vida que segue 1 copy
" Bogach-bedni͡ak". ( Roman. Kniga II-i͡a.) 1 copy
Солнечные берега реки Леты: Рассказы 1 copy
Great American Short Stories / Act of Faith - Paul's Case - The Great… 1 copy
Θαψτε τους νεκρούς 1 copy
Due settimane in un'altra città 1 copy
Rikas rakas.....menestyksen maku 1 1 copy
The Assassin 1 copy
Mladí lvi 1 copy
Mixed Company volume 2 1 copy
Młode lwy. tom III 1 copy
Młode lwy. tom II 1 copy
Education Of The Heart 1 copy
Opere 1 copy
Зеленая Ню 1 copy
Młode lwy. tom I 1 copy
La brava gente 1 copy
The Mannichon Solution 1 copy
Act of Faith {short story} 1 copy, 1 review
ثورة الموتى 1 copy
Where All Things Wise And Fair Descend 1 copy
Pogoda dla bogaczy 1 copy
Mlode Lwy 1 copy
Return to Kansas City (Still Life) 1 copy
Welcome to the city 1 copy
Onnenpoika 1 copy
O cimo do monte 1 copy
Młode lwy. T. 1-2 1 copy
TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN 1 copy
Short stories 1 copy
Az átjáró 1 copy
Rejsen ud - rejsen hjem : Udvalgte noveller 1 copy
Círculo de luz y otros relatos 1 copy
O alto da colina 1 copy
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Death of a Salesman [critical edition] (Contributor) 1,207 copies, 8 reviews
50 Great Short Stories (Contributor) 1,079 copies, 8 reviews
Short Story Masterpieces (Contributor) 600 copies, 4 reviews
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (Contributor) 424 copies, 3 reviews
Fifty Great American Short Stories (Contributor) 389 copies, 4 reviews
Points of View: Revised Edition (Contributor) 384 copies, 6 reviews
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (Contributor) 332 copies
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 276 copies, 3 reviews
A Treasury of Short Stories (Contributor) 272 copies
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 255 copies, 4 reviews
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (Contributor) 237 copies, 4 reviews
Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1925 to 1940 (Contributor) 184 copies, 1 review
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous… (Contributor) 172 copies, 1 review
Twenty Grand Short Stories (Contributor) 143 copies, 1 review
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (Contributor) 125 copies
Thirty Famous One-Act Plays (Contributor) 98 copies, 2 reviews
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (Contributor) 86 copies
Twenty Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre (Contributor) 69 copies
Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics (Contributor) 66 copies, 1 review
55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1940 to 1950 (Contributor) 49 copies
The Jewish Writer (Contributor) 47 copies
Reading for Pleasure (Contributor) 47 copies
Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics (Contributor) 45 copies, 4 reviews
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual… (Contributor) 35 copies
Modern Jewish stories (Contributor) 32 copies
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre [4-volume set] (Contributor) 29 copies
Rediscoveries: Informal Essays in Which Well-Known Novelists Rediscover… (Contributor) 26 copies
The Greatest War Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Four Incredible War Tales (Contributor) 23 copies, 1 review
The Bedside Playboy (Contributor) 22 copies
America on Stage : Ten Great Plays of American History (Contributor) 21 copies
The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers (Contributor) 17 copies
The Girls from Esquire (Contributor) 17 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1944 (Contributor) 16 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1963 (Contributor) 15 copies, 1 review
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Contributor) 13 copies, 1 review
The Best American Short Stories 1955 (Contributor) 13 copies
New Stories for Men (Contributor) 12 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1962 (Contributor) 11 copies
Rich Man, Poor Man [1976 TV mini series] (Original book) 10 copies
The best of the Best American short stories, 1915-1950 (Contributor) 10 copies
The Best Short Stories of 1941 and the Yearbook of the American Short… (Contributor) 9 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1943 (Contributor) 9 copies
Story Jubilee (Contributor) 8 copies
Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (Contributor) 8 copies
Best modern short stories (Contributor) 8 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1947 (Contributor) 7 copies
Moderne joodse verhalen (Contributor) 7 copies
Fiction Goes to Court (Contributor) 7 copies
Concerning a Woman of Sin and Other Stories of Holllywood (Contributor) 5 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1954 (Contributor) 5 copies
The Best Short Stories of 1940 and the Yearbook of the American Short… (Contributor) 5 copies
The Wide Sea (Contributor) 5 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1942 (Contributor) 4 copies
The Best from Cosmopolitan (Contributor) 4 copies
American Short Stories (Contributor) 3 copies, 1 review
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 2 (Contributor) 3 copies
The Bathroom Reader (Contributor) 3 copies
Commandos Strike at Dawn [1942 film] (Screenplay) 3 copies
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards… (Contributor) 2 copies
Enjoying Stories (Contributor) 2 copies
The Time of Your Life: An Anthology of Short Stories (Contributor) 1 copy
The Teaching Experience: An Introduction to Education Through Literature (Contributor) 1 copy
Two Weeks in Another Town [1962 film] (Original novel) 1 copy
Modern Short Stories (Contributor) 1 copy
The Avon Annual: 18 Great Story of Today (Contributor) 1 copy
The Haunted Boy, Sphinx, Lead Her Like a Pigeon, Red Wind, The Eighty-Yard… 1 copy
15 Great Stories of Today (Contributor) 1 copy
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (Contributor) 1 copy
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Canonical name
Legal name
Shamforoff, Irwin Gilbert
Other names
Date of birth
1913-02-27
Date of death
1984-05-16
Burial location
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Cremated
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Country (for map)
Birthplace
The Bronx, New York, USA
Place of death
Davos, Switzerland
Cause of death
Places of residence
New York, New York, USA
Davos, Switzerland
Education
Brooklyn College
Occupations
radio scriptwriter
playwright
novelist
short-story writer
screenwriter
Relationships
Organizations
United States Army (WWII)
Awards and honors
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1946)
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