Editing Irwin Shaw (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Irwin Shaw.jpg|thumb|upright|Shaw in his CUNY years, {{circa|1933}}]]
Shaw was born '''Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff''' in the [[South Bronx]], New York City, to [[Jewish]] [[immigrant]]s from [[Nizhyn]], [[Ukraine]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Michael Shnayerson |url=http://archive.org/details/irwinshawbiograp00shna |title=Irwin Shaw |date=1989 |publisher=Putnam |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-399-13443-2}}</ref> His parents were Rose and Will. His younger brother, David Shaw, became a noted Hollywood producer and writer.<ref name="davidshaw">{{cite web |url=http://www.emmys.com/news/golden-era-scribe-david-shaw-dies |title=Golden Era Scribe David Shaw Dies |publisher=[[Emmy Award|Emmys]] |date=August 20, 2007 |access-date=January 15, 2014}}</ref> 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.

He began screenwriting in 1935 at age 21. In 1939 he married actress and producer Marian Edwards, daughter of silent film actor [[Snitz Edwards]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/31/arts/marian-shaw-theatrical-producer-80.html|title=Marian Shaw, Theatrical Producer, 80|date=December 31, 1996|website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> The couple divorced in 1967, remarrying two years before Irwin's death in 1984.

During [[World War II]], he was approached by [[William Wyler]] to join his film unit. Unable to be commissioned as an officer due to his age and 1-A draft status,<ref>Miller, Gabriel ''William Wyler: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Most Celebrated Director'' University Press of Kentucky, July 19, 2013</ref> Shaw decided to enter the [[United States Army|Regular Army]]. Later, the Army, noting his background, reassigned him to the [[United States Army Signal Corps|Signal Corps]] with [[George Stevens]]' film unit.<ref>Harris, Mark ''Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War'' Canongate Books, February 20, 2014</ref> He was one of four writers attached to Stevens' command, in which he became a [[Warrant officer (United States)|warrant officer]]. After the war, he returned to his career as a writer.

Shaw died in [[Davos, Switzerland]] on May 16, 1984, at age 71, after undergoing treatment for [[prostate cancer]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pages/archives/findaid/shaw/bio.html |title=The Papers of Irwin Shaw|work=BROOKLYN COLLEGE ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS|access-date=December 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022082906/http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pages/archives/findaid/shaw/bio.html |archive-date=October 22, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>