![]() ![]() Uris also endured some of his own battles, feuding with directors Otto Preminger and Alfred Hitchcock, and fighting lawsuits for both "Exodus" and the thriller "Topaz." In researching "Exodus," he logged thousands of miles and ended up reporting on the 1956 conflict in the Middle East. "It's referred to as 'The Book."'Įnergetic and unafraid, the author was as much an adventurer as a writer, traveling tirelessly and sometimes risking his life. "'Exodus' has been the Bible of the Jewish dissident movement in Russia," Uris told The Associated Press in a 1988 interview. ![]() The novel was translated into dozens of languages and was even distributed secretly in communist countries. Published in 1958, the 600-page "Exodus" was a sensation as millions read Uris' detailed, heroic chronicle of European Jewry from the turn of the century to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Uris died Saturday of natural causes at his home on New York's Shelter Island, his ex-wife, photographer Jill Uris, said today from her home in Aspen, Colo. ![]() NEW YORK - Author Leon Uris, an immigrant's determined son who made it big with the best-selling "Exodus" and other hugely popular novels, has died. ![]()
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