Editing Irwin Shaw (section)

{{Short description|American writer (1913–1984)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name         = Irwin Shaw
| image        = Irwin Shaw (1948).jpg
| caption      = Shaw in 1948
| birth_name    = Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1913|2|27}}
| birth_place   = [[The Bronx, New York]], U.S.
| death_date    = {{death date and age|1984|5|16|1913|2|27}}
| death_place   = [[Davos]], Switzerland
| occupation   = {{flatlist|
* Playwright
* screenwriter
* novelist
}}
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| notableworks = ''[[Bury the Dead]]'' (1936)<br />''[[The Young Lions (novel)|The Young Lions]]'' (1948)<br />''[[Rich Man, Poor Man (novel)|Rich Man, Poor Man]]'' (1969)<br />''[[Beggarman, Thief]]'' (1977)
| spouse       = Marian Edwards (1916–1996)
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| awards       = {{nowrap|[[O. Henry Award]] (1944, 1945)<br />[[American Academy of Arts and Letters|National Institute of Arts and<br />Letters Grant]] (1946)<br />[[Playboy]] Award (1964, 1970, 1979)<br />[[Honorary Doctorate]], [[Brooklyn College]]}}
| website      = {{URL|irwinshaw.org}}
}}

'''Irwin Shaw''' (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best known for two of his novels: ''[[The Young Lions (novel)|The Young Lions]]'' (1948), about the fate of three soldiers during [[World War II]], which was made into [[The Young Lions (film)|a film of the same name]] starring [[Marlon Brando]] and [[Montgomery Clift]], and ''[[Rich Man, Poor Man (novel)|Rich Man, Poor Man]]'' (1970), about the fate of two brothers and a sister in the post-World War II decades,<ref name="previously unmentioned sister, Gretchen" /> which in 1976 was made into [[Rich Man, Poor Man (miniseries)|a popular miniseries]] starring [[Peter Strauss]], [[Nick Nolte]], and [[Susan Blakely]].