Highbrow Drinks With A View

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Playwright Irwin Shaw and wife lunching outside their house in Klosters, Switzerland. Mr.Shaw with a drink and pizza pie and his wife Marian Edwards. 1959. (Toni Frissell)

Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.

He is best known for two of his novels: The Young Lions (1948), about the fate of three soldiers during World War II, which was made into a film of the same name starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift,
and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), about the fate of two brothers and a sister in the post-World War II decades,
which in 1976 was made into a popular miniseries starring Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, and Susan Blakely.

Marian Edwards was an actress who married Shaw in 1939 to 1967, divorced, and then remarried in 1982, two years before Shaw’s death. She was the daughter of silent film actor Snitz Edwards.