Editing Irwin Shaw (section)

=== Novels and miniseries ===
''[[The Young Lions (novel)|The Young Lions]]'', Shaw's first novel, was published in [[1948 in literature|1948]]. Based on his experiences in Europe during the war, the novel was very successful and was adapted into a 1958 [[The Young Lions (film)|film]]. Shaw was not happy with the film, feeling it soft-pedaled some of the serious issues from his book, but it did well at the box office.

In 1950 Shaw published ''Report on Israel'', a journalistic book dealing with the situation in the state around the time of its founding with photographs by [[Robert Capa]]''.''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hauzer |first=Katarzyna |date=2013 |title=So This Is Peace? The Postwar Ventures by John Steinbeck, Irwin Shaw, and Robert Capa |journal=Ad Americam: Journal of American Studies |volume=14 |pages=51–62 |doi=10.12797/AdAmericam.14.2013.14.04 |issn=1896-9461|doi-access=free }}</ref>

Shaw's second novel, ''[[The Troubled Air]]'', chronicling the rise of [[McCarthyism]], was published in [[1951 in literature|1951]]. He was among those who signed a petition asking the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] to review the [[John Howard Lawson]] and [[Dalton Trumbo]] convictions for [[contempt of Congress]], resulting from hearings by the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]]. Accused of being a [[communist]] by the [[Red Channels]] publication, Shaw was placed on the [[Hollywood blacklist]] by the movie studio bosses. In 1951 he left the United States and went to Europe, where he lived for 25 years, mostly in Paris and Switzerland. He later claimed that the blacklist "only glancingly bruised" his career. During the 1950s he wrote several more screenplays, including ''[[Desire Under the Elms (film)|Desire Under the Elms]]'' (based on [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s play) and ''Fire Down Below'' (about a tramp boat in the [[Caribbean]]).

While living in Europe, Shaw wrote more bestselling books, notably ''[[Lucy Crown]]'' ([[1956 in literature|1956]]), ''Two Weeks in Another Town'' ([[1960 in literature|1960]]), ''[[Rich Man, Poor Man (novel)|Rich Man, Poor Man]]'' ([[1970 in literature|1970]]) (for which he would later write a less successful sequel entitled ''[[Beggarman, Thief]]'') and ''Evening in Byzantium''<ref>https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/irwin-shaw-8/evening-in-byzantium/ Retrieved November 24, 2023.</ref> (made into a [[Evening in Byzantium|1978 TV movie]]).

''Rich Man, Poor Man'' was adapted into a [[Rich Man, Poor Man (TV miniseries)|highly successful ABC television miniseries]] with six 2-hour episodes shown for February 1 to March 15, 1976. The series ranked third in the seasonal Nielsens and garnered twenty-three Emmy nominations. A further adaptation, which Shaw had very little to do with, ''Rich Man, Poor Man--Book II'' was aired from September 21, 1976, to March 8, 1977. This was not as successful as the first.<ref name="Rich Man, Poor Man, Museum of Broadcast Communications">[http://www.museum.tv/eotv/richmanpoo.htm RICH MAN, POOR MAN: U.S. Miniseries] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141202104640/http://www.museum.tv/eotv/richmanpoo.htm |date=December 2, 2014 }}, Museum of Broadcast Communications.</ref><ref>''Total Television: A Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present'', Alex McNeil, Penguin Books, 1984.</ref> There was a third sequel ''Beggar Man, Thief'' in 1978, which belatedly included the Jordache's sister Gretchen who had been a prominent character in the original book.<ref name="previously unmentioned sister, Gretchen">[https://nostalgiacentral.com/television/tv-by-decade/tv-shows-1970s/rich-man-poor-man/ Rich Man, Poor Man], Nostagia Central. "A further sequel, Beggar Man, Thief (1978) introduced the Jordaches' previously unmentioned sister, Gretchen."</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/04/archives/rudolph-tom-and-gretchen-rich-man-poor-man.html Rudolph, Tom and Gretchen], ''New York Times'', W. G. Rogers, October 4, 1970.</ref>

His novel ''The Top of the Hill'' (1979) was made into a TV movie about the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid in 1980, starring [[Wayne Rogers]], [[Adrienne Barbeau]], and [[Sonny Bono]].

His last two novels were ''Bread Upon the Waters'' (1981), a realist novel dealing with the socioeconomic conditions of 20th century New York,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Raičević |first=Svetlana |title=Hleb povrh vode |publisher=Beogradski izdavačko-grafički zavod |year=1987 |isbn=86-13-00192-0 |pages=521–525 |language=sh |trans-title=Bread Upon the Waters |chapter=Beleška o piscu |trans-chapter=Biographical note}}</ref> and ''Acceptable Losses'' (1982).