- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 724-726. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
- Son-in-law of silent film character actor Snitz Edwards.
- Brother-in-law of Maxine Stuart.
- Older brother of David Shaw.
- Served as a warrant officer in the U.S. Army during World War II.
- American novelist, radio and short story writer (for publications like Collier's, Esquire, The New Yorker, Playboy and The Saturday Evening Post) and playwright, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. His best-selling work, "The Young Lions" (1948), was set during World War II. Arguably, his crowning achievement was "Rich Man, Poor Man" (1970), a sprawling saga which traces a family through three generations and which was filmed as a hugely successful miniseries.
- His commanding officer in the European Theater of Operations in World War II was director George Stevens.
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