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Leon Uris

Leon Uris (August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003) was an American novelist, known for the amount of research he did for his novels. Uris never finished high school as he left school to join the Marines. In 1950, Esquire Magazine bought an article from him and this encouraged him to work on a novel. The result was the best seller Battle Cry, graphically showing the toughness and courage of U.S. Marines in the Pacific and The Angry Hills , a novel set in war-time Greece. As a screen writer and a newspaper correspondent, he became intensely interested in Israel which led to his best-known work, Exodus, which is about the founding of the state of Israel.

Later works include Mila 18, a stirring account of Jewish courage in the Warsaw ghetto, Trinity, an epic novel about Ireland's struggle for independence, and QB VII, a chilling novel about the role of a Polish doctor in a German concentration camp.

Selected titles

  • Battle Cry, 1953
  • The Angry Hills , 1955
  • Exodus, 1958
  • Exodus Revisited, 1960 (GB title: In the Steps of Exodus)
  • Mila 18, 1961
  • Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin, 1963
  • Topaz, 1967
  • The Third Temple (with Strike Zion by William Stevenson), 1967
  • QB VII, 1970
  • Ireland, A Terrible Beauty, 1975 (with Jill Uris)
  • Trinity, 1976
  • Jerusalem: A Song of Songs, 1981 (with Jill Uris)
  • The Haj, 1984
  • Mitla Pass, 1988
  • Redemption, 1995
  • A God in Ruins, 1999
  • O'Hara's Choice, 2003

Note: Many of Uris's fans are of the opinion that his last two books, A God in Ruins and O'Hara's Choice, were so poorly written and so different in style from any previous work that they must have been written or heavily edited by someone else.




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