Leon Uris

Leon Uris was one of the highly renowned authors from America who was well known for writing several successful novels based on the historical fiction and literature & fiction genres. He was particularly famous for his novels titled Trinity and Exodus. Before taking up writing as a career, author Uris used to serve in the Marine Corps during the World War Two. After that, he used to work for a newspaper agency and write during the spare times. Uris would not take his writing seriously in the beginning until one of his articles was bought by the Esquire magazine. Later, he got more interested with the topic of Israel and this motivated him to carry out some extensive research work in his novel ‘Exodus’. After spending a couple of years on the research work, he was finally able to write and publish the novel to a great success. Author Uris started his career as a published author with the novel titled ‘Battle Cry’ that was released in the year 1953. The last novel written by him, ‘O’Hara’s Choice’ had come out in the year 2003. Author Uris was born on August 3, 1924 and died on June 21, 2003. His birth had taken place in Baltimore, Maryland, the United States; in a Jewish American family. His father, Wolf William was an immigrant from Poland and used to work as a paperhanger and storekeeper. Uris’s mother was of a Russian America descent. He later spoke of his father that his father faced harsh realities and failure in Czarist Russia because of being a Jew and this had made him very much bitter.