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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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When I think of New York, I think of all the girls … the young girls at the football games with the red cheeks and when the warm weather comes, the girls in their summer dresses.
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I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.
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I wish my deadly foe, no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
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Born:
February 27, 1913
Died:
May 16, 1984
(aged 71)
Bio:
Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.
Known for:
Rich Man, Poor Man (1970)
The Young Lions (1948)
Lucy Crown (1956)
Beggarman, Thief (1978)
Nightwork: A Novel (1975)
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