Leon Uris, Author of ‘Exodus,’ Dies at 78
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
June 26, 2003
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 Hollywood Western, died June 21 at his home on Shelter Island, N.Y. He was 78.
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