Career Irwin_Shaw

1 career

1.1 drama
1.2 novels
1.3 short stories
1.4 awards

career
drama

shaw began screenwriting in 1935 @ age of 21, , scripted several radio shows, including dick tracy, gumps , studio one. recaptured period of life in short story main currents of american thought, hack radio writer grinding out 1 script after while calculating number of words equal rent money:

shaw s first play, bury dead (1936) expressionist drama group of soldiers killed in battle refuse buried. play quiet city, directed elia kazan , incidental music aaron copland, closed after 2 sunday performances.

during 1940s, shaw wrote number of films, including talk of town (a comedy civil liberties), commandos strike @ dawn (based on c.s. forester story commandos in occupied norway) , easy living (about football player unable enter game due medical condition). shaw married marian edwards (daughter of well-known screen actor snitz edwards). had 1 son, adam shaw, born in 1950, himself writer of magazine articles , non-fiction.

shaw summered @ pine brook country club, located in countryside of nichols, connecticut, became 1936 summer home of group theatre (new york), roster included elia kazan, harold clurman, harry morgan, john garfield, frances farmer, geer, clifford odets , lee j. cobb.

novels

the young lions, shaw s first novel, published in 1948. based on experiences in europe during war, novel successful , adapted 1958 film. shaw not happy film.

shaw s second novel, troubled air, chronicling rise of mccarthyism, published in 1951. among signed petition asking u.s. supreme court review john howard lawson , dalton trumbo convictions contempt of congress, resulting hearings house committee on un-american activities. accused of being communist red channels publication, shaw placed on hollywood blacklist movie studio bosses. in 1951 left united states , went europe, lived 25 years, in paris , switzerland. later claimed blacklist glancingly bruised career. during 1950s wrote several more screenplays, including desire under elms (based on eugene o neill s play) , fire down below (about tramp boat in caribbean).

while living in europe, shaw wrote more bestselling books, notably lucy crown (1956), 2 weeks in town (1960), rich man, poor man (1970) (for later write less successful sequel entitled beggarman, thief) , evening in byzantium (made 1978 tv movie). rich man, poor man adapted highly successful abc television miniseries in 1976.

his novel top of hill made tv movie winter olympics @ lake placid in 1980, starring wayne rogers, adrienne barbeau, , sonny bono.

his last 2 novels bread upon waters (1981) , acceptable losses (1982).

short stories

shaw highly regarded short story author, contributing collier s, esquire, new yorker, playboy, saturday evening post, , other magazines; , 63 of best stories collected in short stories: 5 decades (delacorte, 1978), reprinted in 2000 784-page university of chicago press paperback. among noted short stories are: sailor off bremen , eighty-yard run , , tip on dead jockey . 3 of stories ( girls in summer dresses , monument , man married french wife ) dramatized pbs series great performances. telecast on june 1, 1981. production released on dvd in 2002 kultur video.

in 1950, shaw wrote book on israel photos robert capa named report on israel.

awards

during lifetime shaw won number of awards, including 2 o. henry awards, national institute of arts , letters grant, , 3 playboy awards.