Playwright, Author (27-Feb-1913 — 16-May-1984)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

James Richard Giles. Irwin Shaw. Twayne. 1983. 202pp.

James Richard Giles. Irwin Shaw: A Study of the Short Fiction. Gale Group. 1991. 256pp.

Michael Shnayerson. Irwin Shaw: A Biography. New York: Putnam. 1989.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers

7. The Film Encyclopedia, 5th Edition (p.1279)

8. Contemporary Novelists (pp.1123-26)

9. Twentieth Century Authors (p.1270)

10. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.684)

11. Who's Who in World Jewry 1965 (p.887)

12. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.13)

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