Publication Order of Trinity Books
| Trinity | 1976 |
| Redemption | 1995 |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Battle Cry | 1953 |
| The Angry Hills | 1955 |
| Exodus | 1958 |
| Mila 18 | 1961 |
| Armageddon | 1964 |
| Topaz | 1967 |
| QB VII | 1970 |
| The Haj | 1984 |
| Mitla Pass | 1988 |
| A God in Ruins | 1999 |
| O’Hara’s Choice | 2003 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Exodus Revisited / In the Steps of Exodus | 1960 |
| Ireland: A Terrible Beauty (With: Jill Uris) | 1975 |
| Jerusalem: Song of Songs (With: Jill Uris) | 1981 |
About Leon Uris
Leon Uris (1924 to 2003) was an American author of historical fiction whose bestsellers include “Exodus” (1958), “QB VII” (1970) and “Trinity” (1976). His long, heavily researched novels cover the Second World War, the founding of Israel and the history of Ireland.
Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Jewish American parents. His father, who was born in Volkovysk in the Russian Empire, worked as a paperhanger and later as a storekeeper. Uris never graduated from high school and failed English three times. He enlisted in the US Marine Corps at 17, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and served as a radioman on Guadalcanal and Tarawa.
After the war he worked for a newspaper and wrote in his spare time, and a sale to Esquire magazine in 1950 encouraged him to take writing more seriously. His first novel, “Battle Cry” (1953), drew on his time with the Marines in the Pacific and became a bestseller. He went to Warner Brothers to write the film version, and later wrote the screenplay for “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral”. “The Angry Hills” (1955), set in wartime Greece, was filmed in 1959.
“Exodus” follows the history of Palestine from the late nineteenth century to the founding of Israel in 1948. It became a worldwide bestseller, and Otto Preminger filmed it in 1960 with Paul Newman. In the Soviet Union it circulated among Jewish refuseniks in illegal typewritten translations. “Mila 18” (1961) deals with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and “Armageddon” with post-war Berlin and the airlift. Alfred Hitchcock filmed the Cold War thriller “Topaz” in 1969. “QB VII”, a courtroom novel loosely based on a libel case that arose from “Exodus”, became an ABC miniseries in 1974.
“Trinity”, about Irish nationalism, spent 21 weeks at the top of the New York Times bestseller list in 1976, and its sequel “Redemption” followed in 1995. With his third wife, the photographer Jill Uris, he produced two illustrated books, “Ireland: A Terrible Beauty” and “Jerusalem: Song of Songs”. His later novels include “The Haj”, “Mitla Pass” and “A God in Ruins”. Uris died of kidney failure at his home on Shelter Island, New York, on 21 June 2003, the year his last novel, “O’Hara’s Choice”, was published. His papers are held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.
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