Recuperating from malaria in San Francisco, he met Betty Katherine World Authors 1950-1970, edited by John Wakeman, 1975, p. The war and I believed in the things I was fighting for.' ('Uris, Leon,' in War, but unlike most modern writers I did not hate the men who fought Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and New Zealand from 1942 to 1945. The Marine Corps became the family he needed. United States Marine Corps, although his father and mother had refused

Himself was attracted to the liberal humanism of FDR's New Deal and Radical idealists, his father was a Communist Party Organizer, but Uris Virginia, and Baltimore, flunked three times in English, and never Uris's parents separated when he was just five or six.

26) Uris's sister Essie was one of the few lights in his early life. Somewhere.' ( Leon Uris: Life of a Best Seller by Ira Bruce Nadel, 2010, p. 'We were essentially disinterested in each other.' Anna, aįirst-generation American and a divorcée, had a daughter from her Uris believed his father, a 'terribly embittered' man, was basically a failure and wasĭetermined not to follow him in this rexpect. Later he earned extra income as a paperhanger and worked as a William sold subscriptions to the Yiddish Communist paper the Freiheit Unites States, he spent a year in Palestine after World War I. Jerusalem, but switched the name to Uris at Ellis Island. His father, a born in Novogrudok, White Russia,derived his surname from Yerushalmi, meaning man of Both of his parents came from traditional Leon Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Wolf WilliamĪnd Anna (Blumberg) Uris. Sustain the kind of concentration that breaks most men trying to writeĪ book over a three- or four-year period.' (from Mitla Pass, 1988) You can stash away and bury thoughts of your greatest love, you cannot close off to everything and everyone but your Memories will overtake you and swamp you and wilt your tenacity. Off the loves and hates of all that back there in the real world, the TheĬonquest of loneliness was the missing link that was, one day, going to Which often depict determined individuals during the dramatic upheavals (1958) was immediately translated into some 50 languages, includingįinnish, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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