Leon Uris (1924-2003) was a master of historical fiction, writing the kinds of epic, fact-filled novels that readers couldn't put down - even if critics weren't always impressed (and even if the facts ...

Leon Uris wasn’t a critic’s darling. But for millions of readers, he was an entree into modern Jewish history. Uris’ books “appeal to people who want a good read,” said Bonnie Lyons, a professor of ...

Leon Uris, the novelist and screenwriter whose best-known works are "Exodus," a popular novel about Jews trying to establish modern Israel, and "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," perhaps the archetypal ...

In 1958, Leon Uris’s Exodus, a story of the founding of the State of Israel, was a worldwide best seller. In the United States, at the time, it became second only to Gone With the Wind, in terms of ...

Terry Kraus was a 12-year-old transfer to a new school in Arizona in the 1960s when a classmate picked on her for being Jewish. A sympathetic teacher saw the exchange, and slipped her a book: Exodus, ...

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 ...