Leon Uris (1924–2003)
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Sobre El 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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de Leon Uris
[unidentified works] 3 copias
The Hope 1 copia
The Spy Catchers 1 copia
QB VII: Volume One 1 copia
Armageddon, Part 2 1 copia
The Defection of Kuznetov 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Uris, Leon
- Nombre legal
- Uris, Leon Marcus
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1924-08-03
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2003-06-21
- Lugar de sepultura
- Quantico National Cemetery, Quantico, Virginia USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Amerika
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Baltimore, Maryland, Amerika
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Long Island, New York, Amerika
- Causa de fallecimiento
- kidney failure
- Lugares de residencia
- Baltimore, Amerika
Long Island, New York, Amerika - Ocupaciones
- writer
journalist - Relaciones
- Uris, Jill
- Organizaciones
- US Marine Corps(WWII)
- Premios y honores
- 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) (mostrar todos 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] - Biografía breve
- 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.
Miembros
Debates
_Exodus_ by Leon Uris - a Group Read in May en 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (junio 2013)
Reseñas
Listas
Sonlight Books (1)
1950s (2)
Revolutions (1)
2015 UpROOTed (1)
Best War Stories (1)
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 49
- También por
- 5
- Miembros
- 19,362
- Popularidad
- #1,125
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 262
- ISBNs
- 642
- Idiomas
- 18
- Favorito
- 55
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