Papers, 1951-1963.

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Papers, 1951-1963.

Annotated typescripts of two of Shaw's books: THE TROUBLED AIR, 1951; and LUCY CROWN, 1956. Also, reviews of "The Young Lions" (movie); and an issue of the SATURDAY EVENING POST (Jan. 26, 1963) which contains a Shaw story, "The Inhabitants of Venus."

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Shaw, Irwin

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Author Irwin Shaw was born in New York and educated at Brooklyn College; after graduation he wrote for radio serials to help support his destitute family. He became a successful playwright, which led to work on various movies, including both original screenplays and adaptations. He gradually shifted his emphasis to short stories, and produced a series of acclaimed stories for New Yorker and other periodicals. He was a non-combatant in World War II but, traveling with a filmmaking unit, he witnes...