MILA 18 (539 pp.)—Leon Uris—Doubleday ($4.95). Leon Uris writes Jewish westerns. In Exodus, the good guys were the Zionists, the homesteaders who fought for and founded the new state of Israel. The ...
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. Uris, who died of ...
9NEWS: Leon Uris, author of `Exodus,' novel of founding of Israel, and other best sellers, dies at 78
Leon Uris, author of `Exodus,' novel of founding of Israel, and other best sellers, dies at 78
Leon Uris, 78, who wove history and adventure into mega-selling books such as "Exodus" and "Trinity," which ensured his place as one of the best-known novelists of the past century, died June 21 at ...
Los Angeles Times: Leon Uris, 78; Novelist Wrote ‘Exodus’ and Other Bestsellers
Leon Uris, a high school dropout who found huge commercial success as the author of panoramic novels that made history his main character, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at his home on New ...
Leon Uris, the novelist and screenwriter whose best-known works are “Exodus,” a novel about Jews trying to establish modern Israel, and “Gunfight at the OK Corral,” perhaps the archetypal Hollywood ...
Hindustan Times: Five books by Leon Uris that entwine history and fiction
I first learnt of the Holocaust via The Diary of Anne Frank, but it was Leon Uris who made me realise I would never make sense of the genocide that claimed the lives of six million Jews. Leon Uris on ...