Leon Uris (August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003) was an American novelist, known for his historical fiction and the deep research that went into his novels. His two bestelling books were Exodus, published in 1958, and Trinity, in 1976. ^[1] August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Exodus is a novel written in 1958 by American novelist Leon Uris about the founding of the state of Israel, based on the name of the 1947 immigration ship Exodus. ... Trinity is a novel (first published 1976) by author Leon Uris. ...

Life

Leon Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Jewish-American parents Wolf William and Anna (Blumberg) Uris. His father, a Polish-born immigrant, was a paperhanger and then later a storekeeper. William spent a year in Palestine after World War I before entering the United States. He derived his surname from Yerushalmi, meaning man of Jerusalem. "He was basically a failure", Uris said later of his father. "He went from failure to failure." Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town, B-more, Balmerr,Bodymore, Murderland Motto: The Greatest City in America (formerly The City That Reads; Get In On It is not the citys motto, but rather the advertising slogan of the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association; BELIEVE is not the... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... This article describes some ethnic, historic, and cultural aspects of the Jewish identity; for a consideration of the Jewish religion, refer to the article Judaism. ... Map of the British Mandate of Palestine. ... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul...

Uris attended schools in Norfolk, Virginia, and Baltimore but never graduated from high school, having failed English three times. At the age of seventeen Uris joined the United States Marine Corps. He served in the South Pacific as a radioman at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and New Zealand from 1942 to 1945. While recuperating from malaria in San Francisco, he met Betty Beck, a Marine sergeant. They married in 1945. Motto: Crescas (Latin for, Thou shalt grow. ... Official language(s) English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Area  Ranked 35th  - Total 42,793 sq mi (110,862 km²)  - Width 200 miles (320 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 7. ... The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the U.S. military responsible for providing power projection from the sea,[1] utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces to global crises. ... Combatants Republic of China U.S.A. (from 1941) U.K. (from 1941) Australia (1941) Netherlands (1941) New Zealand (1941) Canada (1941) U.S.S.R. (from 1945) Empire of Japan Commanders Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin (from 1945) Hideki Tojo The Pacific War was... Guadalcanal, position (inset) and main towns Guadalcanal is a 2,510 square mile (6 500 km²) island in the Pacific Ocean and a province of the Solomon Islands. ... Map of the Tarawa atoll For other uses, see Tarawa (disambiguation). ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... 1945 (MCMVL) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Malaria is an infectious disease that is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

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 Jewish history from the late 19th Century through the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. Exodus was a worldwide bestseller, translated into a dozen languages, and was made into a feature film in 1960, starring Paul Newman. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Esquire is a magazine for men owned by the Hearst Corporation. ... A battle cry is a yell or chant taken up in battle, usually by members of the same military unit. ... Exodus is a novel written in 1958 by American novelist Leon Uris about the founding of the state of Israel, based on the name of the 1947 immigration ship Exodus. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Exodus is a novel written in 1958 by American novelist Leon Uris about the founding of the state of Israel, based on the name of the 1947 immigration ship Exodus. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and film director. ...

Later works include Mila 18, a story of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin, which reveals the detailed work by British and American intelligence services in planning for the occupation and pacification of post WWII Germany, Trinity, an epic novel about Ireland's struggle for independence, QB VII, a chilling novel about the role of a Polish doctor in a German concentration camp, and The Haj, with insights into the history of the Middle East and the secret machinations of foreigners which have led to today's turmoil. Spoiler warning: Mila 18 is a stirring novel set is in German occupied Warsaw during World War II. Leon Uriss work is about the Nazi atrocities of systematically dehumanising and eliminating the Jewish People from the face of the earth. ... The Ghetto Heroes Memorial The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in General Government during the Holocaust in World War II. In the three years of its existence, starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps dropped the population of the... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Trinity is a novel (first published 1976) by author Leon Uris. ... QB VII by Leon Uris was a best seller published in 1970. ... Prior to and during World War II Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (Konzentrationslager or KZ) throughout the territory it controlled. ... The Haj is a novel published in 1984 by author Leon Uris. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ...

He also wrote the screenplays for Battle Cry and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Battle Cry is a 1955 film, starring Van Heflin, Aldo Ray and James Whitmore. ... Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 movie starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday about the famous October 26, 1881 gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. ...

Leon Uris died of congestive heart failure at his Long Island home on Shelter Island (town), New York. He was 78. ^[2] Mercator projection of Long Island Long Island is an island in New York, USA. It has an area of 1,377 square miles (3567 km²) and a population of 7. ... Shelter Island is an island and a town located at the eastern end of Suffolk County, New York, USA. As of the United States 2000 Census, the town population was 2,228. ...

The novel O'Hara's Choice was published posthumously in October 2003. However, the deviation from style and the inferior plot complex displayed in O'Hara's Choice have led many to question whether the book was ghost-written by someone else.

Trivia

Curiously in some of his books a likeable character is associated with the number 359195: for example, Danny Forrester's (Battle Cry) and Clinton Loveless's (Armageddon) service numbers and Dov Landau's (Exodus) registration number in Auschwitz. Auschwitz, in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built near the town of Oświęcim, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Oświęcim (called by the Germans Auschwitz) itself. ...

In an episode The Simpsons, HOMR, Cletus attempts to use a Leon Uris book to crack open a turtle's shell. This is presumbably for the purpose of eating the turtle, but the turtle bites his finger. Simpsons redirects here. ... is the ninth episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons. ...

In the [(Adult Swim)] series [(Frisky Dingo)] episode XPO, Killface closes quoting Uris: "Pride is a fool's fortress"...now who's for Denny's?"

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

A battle cry is a yell or chant taken up in battle, usually by members of the same military unit. ... Exodus is a novel written in 1958 by American novelist Leon Uris about the founding of the state of Israel, based on the name of the 1947 immigration ship Exodus. ... Spoiler warning: Mila 18 is a stirring novel set is in German occupied Warsaw during World War II. Leon Uriss work is about the Nazi atrocities of systematically dehumanising and eliminating the Jewish People from the face of the earth. ... Topaz is a thriller novel written by Leon Uris and published in 1967. ... QB VII by Leon Uris was a best seller published in 1970. ... Trinity is a novel (first published 1976) by author Leon Uris. ... The Haj is a novel published in 1984 by author Leon Uris. ... Redemption (first published 1995) is a novel by author Leon Uris. ...

See also

• List of bestselling novels in the United States

This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States, as determined by Publishers Weekly. ...

References

1. ^ "Author Leon Uris Dies at 78," The Elyria (Ohio) Chronicle Telegram, June 25, 2003, page A8.
2. ^ "Author Leon Uris Dies at 78," The Elyria (Ohio) Chronicle Telegram, June 25, 2003, page A8.

External links

• Inventory of Leon Uris novel and screenplay manuscripts and other documents