![]() ![]() The major happenings are all here: the operetta he wrote at 7 when his dog died. He has also written a 15-page, single-spaced, third-person biographical resume. He has written film scripts, a (failed) Broadway play, a couple of coffee-table picture books. ![]() At last count, "Exodus," his all-time blockbuster, has been published in 50 languages. ![]() He is the author of eight novels, five of them No. "Well, I'm in my 54th year," he laughs, when his wife calls him on it. Leon Uris is 53, though he has a habit of uppiing it to 54. "Oh, no, Lee's not hard to get along with," says Jill Uris. When you ask a dumb question ("What are the Irish really like?"), he tells you so to your teeth. Though he swears he's mellow now, even "laid back," his hawklike eyes give it all the lie. He looks like an old street fighter and ex-Marine, and he is. Leon Uris is a tough, squat, mod-haired, blunt-nosed son of an immigrant paperhanger. ![]()
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