Although not quite as popular as his previous novel, Mila 18 still became a best seller. That struggle became the basis for Uris’s next novel, Mila 18 (1961), named for the address of the resistance fighters’ headquarters. Otto Preminger’s film adaptation (1960), starring Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint, achieved blockbuster status immediately upon opening and has since become an American movie classic.Įxodus contains extensive flashbacks to the Holocaust, the most gripping of which involves the battle for the Warsaw Ghetto. Since its publication the novel has never been out of print. Clearly his most famous work, Exodus spent more than a year on the New York Times best-seller list and remains one of the best-selling novels in American publishing history. He covered more than 12,000 miles and interviewed more than a thousand people in preparation for writing Exodus (1958), the story of the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. Corral (1957), Uris spent most of the next several years traveling through Israel. Although he continued to work in Hollywood, writing the screenplay for Gunfight at the O.K. It was the focus on Nazism in The Angry Hills that kindled Uris’s interest in the Holocaust and the settlement of Israel. in 1954, and a year later published The Angry Hills (1955), based loosely on the adventures of an uncle’s espionage activities during the Nazi occupation of Greece. He wrote the screenplay for the novel’s film adaptation, which was produced by Warner Bros.
Battle Cry was rejected by several publishers before being accepted by Putnam favorable critical and popular reception of the novel led Uris to devote his full attention to writing. He wrote furiously, eventually publishing a football article in Esquire magazine in 1950. Upon his discharge from the Marine Corps, Uris married Betty Katherine Beck on 5 January 1945 and began working as a circulation manager for a San Francisco newspaper. His military experience would later provide him with the material for his first book, Battle Cry (1953), which he considered to be the “real” story of the Marines. He served 1942–1945 in the South Pacific, participating in a number of fierce battles, including Guadalcanal and Tarawa. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he dropped out of school and lied about his age in order to enlist in the Marine Corps. An admittedly poor student, Uris attended school in Norfolk, Virginia, failing English three times and never graduating from high school.
Wolf Uris, a Polish immigrant who had lived for a time in Palestine, also worked as a Communist Party organizer. Uris was the son of Wolf William Uris, a paperhanger and shopkeeper, and Anna (Blumberg) Uris, a homemaker.
21 June 2003 in Shelter Island, New York), popular historical novelist noted for chronicles of World War II, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the fight for Irish independence.
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