Leon Marcus Uris, novelist, was born in Baltimore, Maryland to William and Anna Uris. His father was a paperhanger who had immigrated from Poland. He was educated in schools in Maryland and Virginia, but he never graduated from high school. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps when he was seventeen and served in the South Pacific and New Zealand during World War II. He worked briefly as a driver for a newspaper, but after 1950 he was a full-time writer.
Uris published his first novel, Battle Cry, when he was 29. He sold the novel to a film producer and wrote the screenplay. He is well-known for his screenplay, Gunfight at the OK Corral. His novel, Exodus, was an overwhelming success, and as a result he gained international recognition. (Source)
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Fiction, History, World War, 1939-1945, Exodus 1947 (Ship), Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military, Atrocities, Surgeons, War crime trials, Berlin (germany), fiction, Famines, Fiction, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Jews, United States, United States. Marine Corps, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, After WW II, Age old conflict, Allied Occupation, 1945, Berlin, Cherokee Indians, Christianity, Cuba in fiction, Easter RisingPlaces
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1959-, Allied occupation, 1945-, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943, 1815-1861, 1837-1901, 1910-1921, 1945-1990, 1959-1990, 20th century, Easter Rising, 1916, From around 1845 on to 1916, Uprising of 1943, WWII, WWII and post WWIIID Numbers
- OLID: OL19269A
- ISNI: 0000000110681901
- VIAF: 66474442
- Wikidata: Q269129
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- Leon Uris
- L. M. Uris
- Léon Uris
- L. Uris
- Leon URIS
- LEON URIS
- Uris, Leon, 1924-2003.
- Leon M. Uris
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