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Nothing Fails Like Success : IRWIN SHAW: A Biography <i> by Michael Shnayerson (G. P. Putnam’s Sons: $21.95; 441 pp., illustrated; 0-399-13443-3) </i>

Perhaps the tragedy of Irwin Shaw was that he eluded categorization. He was a burly lumberjack of a man with woolen curls and a broken beak of a nose, but his best prose had a delicacy and plaintive rue that belied his displays of machismo. He flirted with the left during the savage political wars of the ‘30s and ‘40s, winning praise as a voice of proletarian malaise, but the ‘50s revealed him as nondoctrinaire and essentially apolitical. He made his reputation with an avant-garde anti-war play and solidified it with a stunning series of stories in The New Yorker, but he would soon be regarded and then dismissed as a popular writer, not a literary one. Shaw himself, speaking of writing but also providing a defense of his life, once said it gave him “the private and exquisite reward of escaping from the laws of consistency.”

Maybe so, but the Irwin Shaw who emerges in Michael Shnayerson’s thorough, shrewd and compelling

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Irwin Shaw

Born

in South Bronx, New York City, New York, The United States

February 27, 1913

Died

May 16, 1984

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Shaw was born Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff in the South Bronx, New York City, to Russian Jewish immigrants. Shaw was a prolific American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best known for his novels, The Young Lions (1948) and Rich Man Poor Man (1970).

His parents were Rose and Will. His younger brother, David Shaw (died 2007), became a noted Hollywood producer. Shortly after Irwin's birth, the Shamforoffs moved to Brooklyn. Irwin changed his surname upon entering college. He spent most of his youth in Brooklyn, where he graduated from Brooklyn College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1934.

Shaw began screenwriting in 1935 at the age of 21, and scripted forShaw was born Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff in the South Bronx, New York City, to Russian Jewish immigrants. Shaw was a prolific American playwright, screenwriter, noveli

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Prolific American playwright, screenwriter, and author of international bestsellers, of which the best-known is The Young Lions (1948), one of the most famous novels about World War II. Irwin Shaw's Rich Man, Poor Man (1970) inspired a popular television mini-series. Critics have generally agreed that Irwin Shaw was a masterful storyteller, but also observed that his commercial fiction hurt his literary reputation. As a short story writer with the skill to create memorable characters, Shaw have been compared to Hemingway, John Cheever, and John O'Hara. His books have sold over 14 million copies.

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