![]() ![]() While recuperating in San Francisco he met his future wife, Betty Beck, a Marine sergeant.Īfter being released from service, he worked for a newspaper and wrote in his spare time. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served in New Zealand from 1942 - 1944 until sickness forced him back to the US. ![]() ![]() His father was a Polish immigrant who spent a year in Palestine before coming to the US after WWI, and his mother was a first-generation Russian-American.Īlthough a writer from a young age, reportedly composing an operetta at six, Uris failed English three times and didn’t graduate from High School. Leon Uris was born on August 3rd, 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland. ![]()
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