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	Leon Uris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leon Uris (August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003) was an American novelist, known for the amount of research he did for his novels.
		Leon Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Jewish-American parents Wolf William and Anna (Blumberg) Uris.
		Uris attended schools in Norfolk, Virginia, and Baltimore but never graduated from high school having flunked English three times.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leon_Uris (400 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Leon Uris
		Leon Uris, who died on Saturday aged 78, gained a huge readership on both sides of the Atlantic with his long novels, notably those about the founding of Israel and the Jews' continuing struggle for survival.
		Dering sued, but Uris and his publishers, who faced a colossally expensive action that involved gathering evidence from defendants scattered all over the world, and were left exposed when the printers settled out of court, stood firm.
		Leon Marcus Uris was born on August 3 1924 at Baltimore, Maryland, to Jewish parents of Russo-Polish origin.
	www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/25/db2501.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2003/06/25/ixopright.html (865 words)

	AllRefer.com - Leon Uris (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Leon Uris[yooris´] Pronunciation Key, 1924–2003, American novelist, b.
		Baltimore, Md. Uris, who wrote many popular novels, is best known for the runaway best seller Exodus (1958), a fictional account of the early history of Israel that was eventually translated into dozens of languages.
		Uris also wrote screenplays, notably for the classic Western Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957), and many of his novels were made into films.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/U/Uris-Leo.html (228 words)

	Biography of Leon Uris
		Leon Marcus Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland on 3 August 1924, the son of a Jewish Russian immigrant.
		Leon Uris claimed his personality was shaped by the failures of his father, who was a paper hanger and storekeeper, saying:
		Leon Uris is not alone in this: See William Faulkner's biography for an insightful quote from Arthur Miller on the influence on writers of the failings of fathers.
	www.biogs.com /famous/uris.html (330 words)

	NCSJ - "Exodus" Author Leon Uris Dies at 78
		Leon Uris, the high school dropout who became a brand-name novelist with his best-selling "Exodus," the 1958 historical pageant about the founding of modern Israel, died on Saturday at his home on Shelter Island, N.Y. He was 78.
		Uris along in his narratives was a passionate determination to work his own experience and that of his European forebears into the historical fabric of his fiction.
		Leon Marcus Uris was born on Aug. 3, 1924, in Baltimore, the second child and only son of Wolf William Uris, a shopkeeper, and Anna Blumberg Uris.
	www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/062503NYTimes_Uris.shtml (1066 words)

	Leon Uris
		Born on August 3, 1924: Leon Uris, the American writer whose bestseller Exodus (1958) was translated into more than 50 languages, including, among others, Finnish, was best known for his sweeping, action-packed novels built around the heroic and often unsung heroes of modern history.
		Uris had sold its film rights in advance, and it was turned into a musical in 1971.
		In 1964, Uris and his British publisher, Bantam, were sued for libel by a Polish doctor, Wladislaw Dering, claiming that Uris had defamed him by name, calling him one of the surgeons who had committed atrocities against the Jews at Auschwitz.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-080303-uris.html (1135 words)

	Mideast Dispatch Archive: Leon Uris, author of “Exodus,” dies aged 78
		Uris' most personal novel, "Mitla Pass," came out in 1988 and closely follows the lives of the author and his family.
		Uris was originally involved with the screenplay, but was reportedly dismissed after a dispute with director Preminger.
		Uris' principal source was Phillipe Thyraud de Vosjoli, an exiled French diplomat who later sued him for allegedly reneging on a profit-sharing agreement.
	www.tomgrossmedia.com /mideastdispatches/archives/000285.html (1047 words)

	Reason
		Obits of Uris were respectful, noting dutifully that he was never regarded as much of a stylist, and that he had relatively little talent for character.
		Uris popularized Israel as a place of righteous refuge, solidifying a link between the Holocaust and Israel that is actually a matter of contention among Israel's own historians and intellectuals.
		But the larger point at which he hints in his derogatory reference to Uris is perfectly valid: No one, neither Palestinians nor other Arabs nor any of their allies elsewhere in the world, had managed to generate a narrative myth powerful enough to counter the one that Uris had helped generate.
	reason.com /links/links063003.shtml (1058 words)

	Print Article: Author Leon Uris dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leon Uris, author of the million-selling Exodus, and other greatly popular novels, has died at 78, his ex-wife said.
		Uris died on Saturday of natural causes at his home on New York's Shelter Island, photographer Jill Uris said from her home in Aspen, Colorado.
		Published in 1958, Exodus was a sensation as millions read Uris' detailed, heroic chronicle of European Jewry from the turn of the century to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/06/25/1056449268657.html (181 words)

	The Readers Room
		Leon Uris was one of those writers that is very hard to classify.
		When reading a Leon Uris novel you understood the importance of the things going on around them, but it was always the people he let you get to know that you cared about.
		Uris was born in Baltimore in 1924 and quit high school to join the Marine Corps in 1941, after flunking English several times.
	www.readersroom.com /bell02.html (466 words)

	USATODAY.com - Leon Uris, author of 'Exodus,' dies at 78 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Uris died Saturday of natural causes at his home on New York's Shelter Island, photographer Jill Uris said from her home in Aspen, Colo.
		Uris also endured some of his own battles, feuding with directors Otto Preminger and Alfred Hitchcock, and fighting lawsuits for both Exodus and the thriller Topaz.
		Like Zadok, Uris was born in Baltimore and spent several years growing up in Norfolk, Va. His father, Wolf William, was a paper hanger and storekeeper.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-06-24-uris-obit_x.htm (993 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Leon Uris
		Leon Uris, the author of the 1958 bestselling American novel Exodus - which ran to 600 pages, equalled the sales of Gone With The Wind and was translated into 50 languages - has died aged 78.
		Uris travelled 12,000 miles inside Israel while writing Exodus, and interviewed 1,200 people, though he never said how many of them were Palestinians.
		Most scenes were shot in the locations where the events took place, and Uris deplored Preminger's decision to drop much of the novel's historical exposition and downplay his sympathetic portrayal of Irgun terrorists.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,984266,00.html (819 words)

	Leon Uris's Exodus
		Leon Uris, the American novelist best known for Exodus, an epic novel about the founding of the state of Israel, passed away on June 21, 2003.
		Uris based his first novel, Battle Cry (1953), on his experience in the Marines, and later moved to Hollywood to write the screenplay for Warner Brothers.
		Uris felt research was paramount to his writing.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /news/newsletters/2003/fall/19.html (350 words)

	A talk with Leon Uris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When novelist Leon Uris finished writing "Trinity" almost two decades ago, he had no plans to write a continuation of the story of the Larkin family and Ireland.
		Uris said he thinks that he has come a long way from "Battle Cry," his first novel.
		This writer met Uris for the first time in 1976, and Uris was quick to note that Tom shared the last name of Trinity's protagonist, Conor Larkin.
	www.underbridge.com /scathan/archive/1995/07_july/07.1995.uris.html (791 words)

	AP Worldstream: Leon Uris, author of `Exodus,' novel of founding of Israel, and other best sellers, dies at 78@ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leon Uris, author of `Exodus,' novel of founding of Israel, and other best sellers, dies at 78
		Dateline: NEW YORK Author Leon Uris, an immigrant's determined son who made it big with the best-selling "Exodus" and other hugely popular novels, has died.
		Uris died Saturday of natural causes at his home on New York's Shelter Island, his ex-wife, photographer Jill Uris, said Tuesday from her home in Aspen, Colorado.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:74839905&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (213 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| The Israel Leon Uris made
		Uris popularized Israel as a place of righteous refuge, solidifying a link between the Holocaust and Israel that remains contentious among Israel’s own historians and intellectuals.
		But Uris helped forge a connection between it and the Jewish genocide, effectively characterizing critics of Israeli policy in terms of that story, setting the terms of the debate for decades.
		Uris’ hero loves a woman who is won over to Israel’s cause; Barakat’s hero is unsure if he is in love or bored.
	www.lebanonwire.com /0307/03071518DS.asp (642 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Remembering: Leon Uris
		Leon Uris passed away on June 21st at the age of 78.
		Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of a Polish immigrant.
		Uris served as a Marine in World War II and then began submitting articles to various magazines.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/remembering-uris-leon.asp (157 words)

	Leon Uris Papers
		The papers of Leon Uris were received at the Ransom Center between 1997-2004 from two sources.
		At the time of his death, Uris was working on projects involving China and immigration to the Lower East Side.
		He was a frequent speaker on university campuses, and in 1989-1990 he toured the country on a lecture and fundraising circuit for Soviet Jewry.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/uris.html (1157 words)

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		Veteran bestselling author Leon Uris (Exodus, Trinity) stays true to form with A God in Ruins, delivering yet another vast and vigorous novel about politics and history, right and wrong, love and loss.
		In the process, Uris takes up some of the attention-grabbing political issues in America from the second half of the 20th century: gun control, terrorist attacks, and Clinton's sex scandals.
		Uris can always be counted on to inject the political with the personal, and Quinn is the perfect vehicle for this when his presidential bid is threatened at the eleventh hour by potentially damning information about his past.
	www.thriftbooks.com /viewDetails.aspx?ISBN=0060183772 (339 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Obituaries -- Leon Uris, author of 'Exodus,' novel of founding of Israel, and other ...
		NEW YORK – Leon Uris, whose best-selling novel "Exodus" offered the world a heroic tale of the founding of Israel and an image of Jews as muscular, sunburned avengers, has died at 78.
		The muscular Uris was himself a story of self-transformation, an immigrant's son who grew rich, strong and fearless.
		Uris was born in Baltimore and grew up in Norfolk, Va. His father was a paper hanger and storekeeper remembered by the author as "basically a failure."
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/obituaries/20030624-1204-obit-uris.html (844 words)

	Sgt Grit's Marine Forum - Re O'Hara's Choice, by Leon Uris... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Uris usually connects the many layers of his stories seamlessly; as this novel draws to a conclusion, however, the hasty revelation of family secrets leads to a forced, emotionally unsatisfying ending.
		Uris was a former marine who had early success with Battle Cry, a novel of Marines in World War II, but this is a disappointing finale.
		Reviewers have noted that Uris has taken liberty in his last book with certain historic facts; one liberty taken, but not as yet noted--that I have seen--is his use of the rank of MGySgt, which did not yet exist during the time frame of the book.
	www.grunt.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=39590 (1143 words)

	-- UT On Campus --
		Leon Uris, internationally renowned author of Battle Cry, Exodus and Trinity, has announced that the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at UT Austin is to be the archival repository of his literary manuscripts.
		Leon Uris went on to write The Angry Hills (1955), for which he drew on a diary of an uncle who had served in a Jewish unit of the British Army in Greece during World War II, which became a film starring Robert Mitchum.
		In assessing the writing career of Leon Uris, New York Times critic Pete Hamill wrote "Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.
	www.utexas.edu /opa/pubs/oncampus/97oc_issues/oc971208/oc-uris.html (853 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Leon Uris
		Bio: Leon Uris is the author of over a dozen phenomenal international bestsellers, including A God in Ruins, Redemption, Trinity, Exodus, QBVII, and Topaz, among others.
		Leon Uris died in June 2003, three months before the publication of this book.
		Master storyteller Leon Uris, internationally acclaimed author of such bestsellers as Exodus, Topaz, QB VII, Trinity, The Haj and Mitla Pass, continues the epic story of the Irish struggle for freedom in Redemption.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/LeonUriseBooks.htm (414 words)

	Leon Uris dies at 78 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		New York: Leon Uris, the novelist and screenwriter whose best-known works are Exodus, a popular novel about Jews trying to establish modern Israel, and Gunfight at the OK Corral, perhaps the archetypal Hollywood Western, died on Saturday at his home on Shelter Island, New York.
		Reviewing Uris’ 1976 novel Trinity in The New York Times Book Review, Pete Hamill wrote: “Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.
		Leon Marcus Uris was born on August 3, 1924, in Baltimore, the second child and only son of Wolf William Uris, a shopkeeper, and Anna Blumberg Uris, Jews of Russian-Polish origin.
	web.mid-day.com /news/world/2003/june/56892.htm (512 words)

	Leon Uris
		Uris is known for his panoramic, action-filled novels which often depict determined individuals during the dramatic upheavals of modern history.
		For the book Uris traveled widely in Israel "by train, plane, Vauxhall, and Austin, jeep and by foot", and interviewed more than 1,200 people - the space he covered in his gathering of material was nearly fifty thousand miles.
		Although Uris wrote mostly on near-history, the story of A God in Ruins (1999) was narrated in flashbacks and set in the United States on the eve of the 2008 presidential election.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /uris.htm (2192 words)

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