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Irwin Shaw (1913–1984)

Author of Rich Man, Poor Man

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

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Works by Irwin Shaw
Rich Man, Poor Man 896 copies, 9 reviews
The Young Lions 635 copies, 15 reviews
Beggarman, Thief 442 copies, 2 reviews
Bread Upon the Waters 309 copies, 5 reviews
Short stories, five decades 213 copies, 1 review
Nightwork 207 copies, 4 reviews
Acceptable Losses 186 copies, 4 reviews
Top of the Hill 173 copies, 3 reviews
Evening in Byzantium 172 copies, 1 review
Lucy Crown 118 copies, 2 reviews
Two Weeks in Another Town 109 copies, 3 reviews
Paris! Paris! 97 copies
The Troubled Air 81 copies, 3 reviews
Voices of a Summer Day 77 copies, 1 review
God Was Here but He Left Early 47 copies, 1 review
The Young Lions [1958 film] (Writer) 37 copies, 3 reviews
Paris/Magnum, photographs 1935-1981 36 copies
The Talk of the Town [1942 film] (Screenwriter) 36 copies, 1 review
Tip on a Dead Jockey 35 copies
Ulysses [1954 film] (Screenwriter) 29 copies, 1 review
Love on a Dark Street 23 copies
Mixed Company 21 copies
Bury The Dead. 21 copies, 3 reviews
Wings Bestsellers Fiction: Irwin Shaw: Three Complete Novels 20 copies
In The Company of Dolphins 20 copies, 3 reviews
Selected short stories 18 copies
Four Complete Novels: Rich Man Poor Man / Beggarman Thief / Evening in… 14 copies
Report on Israel 13 copies
De unga lejonen. 1 11 copies
De unga lejonen. 2 11 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
Rikas rakas.....menestyksen maku 2 7 copies
The Gentle People 7 copies
Sailor Off the Bremen 5 copies
Welcome to the city and other stories 5 copies
Whispers in Bedlam. Three Novellas. Whispers in Bedlam. Small Saturday.… 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 4 copies
Fire Down Below [1957 film] (Writer) 3 copies
Retreat and Other Stories. 3 copies
The Day The War Ends 3 copies
Main Currents of American Thought 3 copies, 1 review
Collected Fiction: The Young Lions, Bread Upon the Waters, Short Stories:… 3 copies, 1 review
Small Saturday 3 copies
Short Stories Of Irwin Shaw 3 copies
Pogoda dla bogaczy. 2 3 copies
Večer v Bizancu 2 copies
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses and other stories 2 copies
Tomu málo, tomu nic 2 copies
Młode lwy. T. 1-2 2 copies
Le bal des maudits volume 1 2 copies
Homem Rico, Homem Pobre, vol I 2 copies
ثورة الموتى 2 copies
Suttogás a sötétben 2 copies
Short Stories of Irwin Shaw Sixty- Eight Stories By a Modern American… 2 copies
Młode lwy. tom III 1 copy
Medal from Jerusalem 1 copy
POVERO RICCO. Irwin Shaw. Club degli Editori. 1 copy
Rare Irwin Shaw SELECTED SHORT STORIES Modern Library c. 1954 #319 HC/DJ 1 copy
Felicidade não se compra 1 copy
Ningún jurado les condenaría y otros relatos 1 copy
Veneno en las ondas 1 copy
Mendigo y ladrón 1 copy
Education Of The Heart 1 copy
Opere 1 copy
Kruh na vodi 1 copy
Az átjáró 1 copy
Rejsen ud - rejsen hjem : Udvalgte noveller 1 copy
Солнечные берега реки Леты: Рассказы 1 copy
The Assassin 1 copy
L- MENDICANTE LADRO - SHAW - BOMPIANI -- 1a ED - 1978 - B - BPP236 1 copy
Полное собрание рассказов. 1940-1950 1 copy
Полное собрание рассказов. 1957-1973 1 copy
Nishchii, vor 1 copy
Богач, бедняк Роман, рассказы 1 copy
the book 1 copy
Vida que segue 1 copy
:Om bogat,om sarac (vol.2 ) 1 copy
Om bogat,om sarac (vol.1 ) 1 copy
Una vita nel vuoto 1 copy
Great American Short Stories / Act of Faith - Paul's Case - The Great… 1 copy
Molodye lvy 1 copy
Vecher v Vizantii 1 copy
Der Wohltt̃er : Roman 1 copy
Bogach, bedniak 1 copy
Unge løver, 1 og 2 1 copy
O cimo do monte 1 copy
Зеленая Ню 1 copy
Młode lwy. tom I 1 copy
Pogoda dla bogaczy 1 copy
Mlode Lwy 1 copy
Short stories 1 copy
La brava gente 1 copy
Círculo de luz y otros relatos 1 copy
TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN 1 copy
Act of Faith {short story} 1 copy, 1 review
Return to Kansas City (Still Life) 1 copy
Welcome to the city 1 copy
Onnenpoika 1 copy
Mixed Company volume 2 1 copy
The Mannichon Solution 1 copy
Młode lwy. tom II 1 copy
O alto da colina 1 copy
Rikas rakas.....menestyksen maku 1 1 copy
Where All Things Wise and Fair Descend 1 copy
O Pobre homem rico 1 copy
ZENGIN VE YOKSUL 1 copy
ZENGIN VE YOKSUL 2 1 copy
LEMBRANÇAS DE UM DIA DE VERÃO 1 copy
O Regressado da Morte 1 copy
Szus 1 copy
Dopuszczalne straty 1 copy
Due settimane in un'altra città 1 copy
Crepusculo en bizancio (Cuadernos Ratita Sabia) 1 copy
The city was in total darkness (Kodansha English library) 1 copy
" Bogach-bedni͡ak". ( Roman. Kniga II-i͡a.) 1 copy
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Death of a Salesman [critical edition] (Contributor) 1,241 copies, 8 reviews
50 Great Short Stories (Contributor) 1,197 copies, 7 reviews
Short Story Masterpieces (Contributor) 652 copies, 3 reviews
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (Contributor) 449 copies, 4 reviews
Fifty Great American Short Stories (Contributor) 414 copies, 3 reviews
Points of View: Revised Edition (Contributor) 400 copies, 7 reviews
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (Contributor) 352 copies
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 292 copies, 3 reviews
A Treasury of Short Stories (Contributor) 286 copies
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 272 copies, 4 reviews
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (Contributor) 261 copies, 4 reviews
Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1925 to 1940 (Contributor) 191 copies, 1 review
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous… (Contributor) 181 copies, 1 review
Twenty Grand Short Stories (Contributor) 155 copies, 3 reviews
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (Contributor) 130 copies, 1 review
Thirty Famous One-Act Plays (Contributor) 106 copies, 2 reviews
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (Contributor) 91 copies
Twenty Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre (Contributor) 73 copies
Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics (Contributor) 70 copies, 2 reviews
Great Esquire Fiction (Contributor) 70 copies, 1 review
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (Contributor) 64 copies, 1 review
55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1940 to 1950 (Contributor) 53 copies
The Jewish Writer (Contributor) 50 copies
Reading for Pleasure (Contributor) 49 copies
Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics (Contributor) 47 copies, 4 reviews
The Bedside Tales: A Gay Collection (Contributor) 43 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual… (Contributor) 40 copies
Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965 (Contributor) 35 copies, 1 review
Modern Jewish stories (Contributor) 34 copies
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre [4-volume set] (Contributor) 29 copies
Rediscoveries: Informal Essays in Which Well-Known Novelists Rediscover… (Contributor) 27 copies
The Greatest War Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Four Incredible War Tales (Contributor) 26 copies, 1 review
American short stories, 1820 to the present (Contributor) 26 copies
The Seas of God: Great Stories of the Human Spirit (Contributor) 25 copies, 2 reviews
Great Short Stories of the World (Contributor) 23 copies
The Bedside Playboy (Contributor) 23 copies
America on Stage : Ten Great Plays of American History (Contributor) 22 copies
Studies in Fiction (Contributor) 22 copies, 1 review
Rich Man, Poor Man [1976 TV mini series] (Original book) 21 copies
The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers (Contributor) 19 copies
Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All (Contributor) 19 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1944 (Contributor) 18 copies
The Girls from Esquire (Contributor) 18 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1963 (Contributor) 16 copies, 1 review
Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (Contributor) 15 copies
Modern American Short Stories (Contributor) 15 copies
New Stories for Men (Contributor) 13 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1955 (Contributor) 13 copies
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Contributor) 13 copies, 1 review
The Best American Short Stories 1962 (Contributor) 12 copies
The Playboy Book of Short Stories (Contributor) 11 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1943 (Contributor) 11 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
Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (Contributor) 8 copies
Fiction Goes to Court (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
Concerning a Woman of Sin and Other Stories of Holllywood (Contributor) 5 copies
The Best Short Stories of 1940 and the Yearbook of the American Short… (Contributor) 5 copies
The Wide Sea (Contributor) 4 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1954 (Contributor) 4 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
Commandos Strike at Dawn [1942 film] (Screenplay) 3 copies
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 2 (Contributor) 3 copies
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards… (Contributor) 3 copies
The Bathroom Reader (Contributor) 3 copies
Husbands and Lovers (Contributor) 2 copies, 1 review
Enjoying Stories (Contributor) 2 copies
The Avon Annual: 18 Great Story of Today (Contributor) 1 copy
The Time of Your Life: An Anthology of Short Stories (Contributor) 1 copy
Two Weeks in Another Town [1962 film] (Original novel) 1 copy
The Haunted Boy, Sphinx, Lead Her Like a Pigeon, Red Wind, The Eighty-Yard… 1 copy
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (Contributor) 1 copy
15 Great Stories of Today (Contributor) 1 copy
The Teaching Experience: An Introduction to Education Through Literature (Contributor) 1 copy
Modern Short Stories (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
Agents
Organizations
United States Army (WWII)
Awards and honors
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1946)
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