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 ...

Leon Uris, the author of such best selling books as “Exodus,” “Battle Cry,” QB VII” and “Trinity,” has died at his home on Shelter Island. He was 78. His death was announced yesterday by his ex-wife, ...

Leon Uris (1924-2003) wrote the epic Exodus about the founding of the State of Israel. You probably never read it but you might have seen the movie with Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint and the ill-fated ...

Jews take pride in calling themselves “the people of the book,” and while there’s something a little vainglorious about the phrase—all peoples have books, don’t they?—its appeal is easy to understand.

Author Leon Uris, an immigrant's determined son who made it big with the million-selling "Exodus" and other widely popular novels, has died, his ex-wife said Tuesday. He was 78. Uris died Saturday of ...

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 ...

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 congestive ...

Leon Uris's death last week briefly revived discussion of Exodus, his famous 1958 novel about the establishment of Israel, if only to remember the book's extraordinary impact. It was a curious moment ...

“Exodus” novelist Leon Uris and his publisher, HarperCollins, are trying to avert a scandal that could have his new best-seller, “A God in Ruins,” in ruins. Published June 1, the heavy-breathing ...