Shaw, Irwin

Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) grew up in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. He is the playwright of "Bury the Dead," and the author of twelve novels, among them "Rich Man," "Poor Man," "The Troubled Air," "Nightwork," "Acceptable Losses," "Evening in Byzantium" and "The Young Lions," the last published by the University of Chicago Press.